Table 3. Comparison of clinical and histological staging at each neck level for both cN0 and cN+ve patients in all neck dissections (63 NDs from 61 patients). Readers are reminded that if a patient was cN0 at a particular level they may have been cN+ve at a different level that determined their overall cN staging (for instance there were 12 level IIs that were classified as cN0, but these patients may have been cN+ve at a different level as there were only 9 patients were cN0 at every neck level) Table 3. Comparison of clinical and histological staging at each neck level for both cN0 and cN+ve patients in all neck dissections (63 NDs from 61 patients). Readers are reminded that if a patient was cN0 at a particular level they may have been cN+ve at a different level that determined their overall cN staging (for instance there were 12 level IIs that were classified as cN0, but these patients may have been cN+ve at a different level as there were only 9 patients were cN0 at every neck level) Table 3. Comparison of clinical and histological staging at each neck level for both cN0 and cN+ve patients in all neck dissections (63 NDs from 61 patients). Readers are reminded that if a patient was cN0 at a particular level they may have been cN+ve at a different level that determined their overall cN staging (for instance there were 12 level IIs that were classified as cN0, but these patients may have been cN+ve at a different level as there were only 9 patients were cN0 at every neck level) Table 3. Comparison of clinical and histological staging at each neck level for both cN0 and cN+ve patients in all neck dissections (63 NDs from 61 patients). Readers are reminded that if a patient was cN0 at a particular level they may have been cN+ve at a different level that determined their overall cN staging (for instance there were 12 level IIs that were classified as cN0, but these patients may have been cN+ve at a different level as there were only 9 patients were cN0 at every neck level) Table 3. Comparison of clinical and histological staging at each neck level for both cN0 and cN+ve patients in all neck dissections (63 NDs from 61 patients). Readers are reminded that if a patient was cN0 at a particular level they may have been cN+ve at a different level that determined their overall cN staging (for instance there were 12 level IIs that were classified as cN0, but these patients may have been cN+ve at a different level as there were only 9 patients were cN0 at every neck level)
Neck level cN0 of which pN+ve cN+ve of which pN+ve
I 59 0 / 59 4 3 / 4
II 12 7 / 12 51 48 / 51
III 45 6 / 45 18 12 / 18
IV 61 3 / 61 2 0 / 2
V 61 0 / 61 2 1 / 2