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Robert M. Byers, MD

Arch Surg. 1986;121(11):1338-1341.

Abstract
• One hundred eighty-one patients were treated with a modified neck dissection for suspected or proved metastatic melanoma during a ten-year period. The overall failure rate in the neck was 16%. Eighty-three percent of the patients with neck recurrence died of disseminated disease. A modified neck dissection that preserves important functional and cosmetic structures but does not compromise cancer control seemed to be appropriate treatment for actual or suspected melanoma metastatic to cervical nodes.

(Arch Surg 1986;121:1338-1341)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of Texas System Cancer Center, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 12, 1986.

Read before the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society of Surgical Oncology, Washington, DC, May 14, 1986.

Reprint requests to M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, 6723 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030 (Dr Byers).

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