Assessment of Cervical lymph nodes In head and neck cancer patients

Abstract

Neck nodes always have been evaluated by physical examination•

.and because the fingers are not sensitive probes for small nodes a• substantial false negative rate as high as 70%may be anticipated . because of that we tried to assess lymph nodes by comparing computerized tomography , ultrasound and ultrasound guided FNAC . we studied I 00 • patient with head and neck cancer . we found that UIS guided FNAC is the most specific (100%) ,highly sensitive (90.9%) and most accurate (96.1%)

So U/S guided FNAC may change the indication of elective neck treatment and reduces the number of un necessary neck treatment.