Radioguided Selective Neck Dissection for Staging and Treatment of Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

University Hospital of Ferrara

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03727594

151099

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to assess the role of lymphoscintigraphy as a simple and widely accessible method with a favorable cost/benefit ratio in improving oral cavity and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma staging and surgical appropriateness and implementing a tailored surgical approach to cervical lymph node dissection.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• accepted informed consent
• preoperative histological diagnosis of oral cavity or oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
• patients fit to surgery of the primitive tumor and neck dissection (according to the general health condition and the clinical tumor stage)

Exclusion criteria

• rejected informed consent
• patients not fit to surgery (according to the general health condition and the clinical tumor stage)
• pregnant women