PET/ CT surveillance versus neck dissection in advanced head and neck cancer.

The article presents a study according to which patients, who were treated with radiochemotherapy (RCT) followed by neck dissection, only showed a partial histopathological response. It mentions an observation that planned neck dissection should be performed in cases of equivocal 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in the cervical lymph nodes. It states that association between cervical lymph node metastases and Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck region (HNSCC).