A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

If you or someone you love is facing a mouth cancer diagnosis, MSK experts can help. If you want to learn about surgeries to treat mouth (oral) cancer, this is a place to start. We’ll explain types of ...

Various conditions can lead to carotid artery neck pain. For instance, some people experience carotidynia, which is inflammation of the blood vessels. Carotid artery dissection can also cause pain in ...

For patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, utilizing fluorodeoxyglucose-(FDG)-PET/CT imaging to assess their response to chemoradiation significantly increases the accuracy in ...

Locally advanced disease includes advanced T stage (T3 and T4) and advanced neck disease (N2 or greater). In an era of nonsurgical organ preservation approaches, primary and salvage surgery remains an ...

Neck manipulation, sometimes called “neck cracking,” is generally considered safe when performed by a trained and licensed professional to treat neck pain. A vertebral artery dissection, which is a ...

Multicenter Trial of [18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Staging of Head and Neck Cancer and Negative Predictive Value and Surgical Impact in the N0 Neck: Results ...