HEAD NECK
ORAL CAVITY AND TONGUE
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Question
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Most OCSCC metastases occurs to which level of neck nodes?
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I, II and III
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II and IV
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I and II
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I and III
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Level I, submental (IA) and submandibular (IB); level II, upper internal jugular nodes; level III, middle jugular nodes; level IV, low jugular nodes; level V, posterior triangle nodes; level VI, central compartment; level VII, superior mediastinal nodes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Historically, obturator lymph nodes were thought to be the most frequent site of nodal metastases in patients with cervical cancer [8]. It was also thought that lymphatic spread advanced in an orderly fashion from the lymph nodes on the pelvic sidewall, to the common iliac, and then the paraaortic group (figure 1).
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