ABOUT THE BOOK
This new, in-depth text covers the state of the art management of cervical lymph node mestastis. Opening with coverage of the historical background to the current treatment modes, the authors outline the specific routes of metastatic disease and their surgical dissection. Detailed are therapeutic dissection techniques for thyroid cancer, salivary cancer, and melanoma by surgeons who have pioneered elective techniques for management of nodal disease, and attention is given to post-operative findings related to quality of life. Unique to this book is a discussion of neck dissection as a salvage procedure.
CONTENTS
- History and Evolution of Neck Dissection.
- Biology of Cervical Metastasis in Head and Neck Cancer.
- Neck Dissection Classification.
- Diagnostic Procedures for Detection of Lymph Node Metastasis in Cancer of the Head and Neck.
- Sentinel Node Biopsy for Head and Neck Cancer.
- Pathology of Neck Dissections.
- Radical and Modified Radical Neck Dissection.
- Extended Neck Dissection.
- Selective Neck Dissections.
- Endoscopic Neck Dissection.
- Complications of Neck Dissections.
- Elective Neck Dissection for Squamous Carcinoma of the Head and Neck.
- Neck dissection for thyroid cancer.
- Neck Dissection for Salivary Gland Cancer.
- Management of Regional Lymph Nodes in Cutaneous Melanoma of the Head and Neck.
- Radiotherapeutic Management of the Neck.
- Neck Dissection Following Chemoradiation: Indications and Approach.
- Surgical Management of Recurrent Cancer in the Neck.
- Outcome of Patients with Neck Metastasis.
- Neck Dissection and Distant Metastasis.
- Metastatic Squamous Carcinoma in the Neck from an Occult Primary.
- Quality of Life after Neck Dissection.
- Index.
ABOUT THE Editors
Alfio Ferlito, MD, DLO, DPath, FRCSEd ad hominem, FRCS (Engl, Glasg, Ir) ad eundem, FDSRCS ad eundem, FACS, FHKCORL, FRCPath, FASCP, MCAP
Professor Ferlito is Director of the Department of Surgical Sciences and Chairman of the ENT Clinic at the University of Udine School of Medicine in Italy. He has published numerous articles, chapters and books on various aspects of head and neck cancers, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on diagnosis and treatment of these tumors. He has written and edited a small library of textbooks. His curriculum vitae provides insight to a glittering of industry and innovation in Otolaryngology, particularly in Laryngology. Prof. Ferlito has been visiting professor and guest lecturer at numerous institutions in the five continents. His publications during the past several years have concentrated heavily on the latest concepts in management of metastatic disease in the neck from head and neck cancer. He is not just an academic leader but also a widely respected clinician.
K. Thomas Robbins, MD, FCRSC, FACS
Dr. Robbins is currently director of the Simmons Cooper Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University, and has served as chairman of the Departments of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, the University of Florida, and Southern Illinois University. He is a past president of the American Head and Neck Society and chaired the Committee for Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, and the Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Council of the American College of Surgeons. Dr Robbins’ academic interests have focused on modifications for conservation neck dissection and neck dissection nomenclature, as well as targeted (intra-arterial) chemotherapy protocols for advanced head and neck cancer. He has been a leader in development of a standardized classification system for neck dissection.
Carl E. Silver, MD, FACS
Dr. Silver is Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and was chief of Head and Neck Surgery at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. He has published extensively on numerous issues concerning diagnosis and management of head and neck cancer. Dr. Silver has coordinated multi-institutional studies on radiographic diagnosis of cervical metastatic disease, and the efficacy of selective neck dissection. He is best known as author of five books on head and neck cancer. His “Surgery for Cancer of the Larynx” (New York, Churchill Livingstone 1981) was considered a “contemporary classic” (Annals of Surgery). Dr. Silver has been guest lecturer and visiting professor at institutions in Australia, Brazil, France, Great Britain, Germany and India, as well as in the United States.
AUDIENCE
Primary: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
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