Topic: Lymph Node Metastases in the Neck

The current Special Issue will highlight the recent key findings in the field of lymph node metastases in the neck and new strategies to improve the therapy for this disease.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Sentinel node biopsy
• PET-CT for the detection of occult lymph node metastasis
• Radiological assessment of extranodal extension
• Prediction models for cervical lymph node metastasis
• Radiomics analysis for preoperative prediction of cervical lymph node metastasis
• Machine learning algorithms to predict lymph node metastasis
• Elective neck dissection
• Modern diagnostic work up lymph node metastasis of unknown primary tumor
• FDG-PET guided radiotherapy of the neck
• Lymphoscintigraphy guided radiotherapy of the neck
• Radiotherapy of the contralateral clinically negative neck
• Neck dissection of the contralateral clinically negative neck
• Lymph node metastasis in salivary gland carcinoma
• Lymph node metastasis of non-melanoma skin cancer
• Lymph node metastasis of melanoma -Omgo Nieweg Lymph node metastasis of thyroid cancer
• Response evaluation after (chemo)radiation for N+ disease

30 Jun 2022