Clinical Significance of Retropharyngeal Lymph Node Metastasis from Hypopharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Background and Objectives：Little information about the incidence of retropharyngeal adenopathy and its impact on prognosis -aryngeal adenopathy in patients with squamous cel carcinoma of the hypopharynx. Subjects and Method：The pretreatment CT/MRI of 121 patients with squamous cel carcinoma of the hypopharynx were reviewed for the presence of metastatic retro-pharyngeal lymph nodes. Al patients were treated betwen 1996 and 2005. The influence on...