Primary Treatment Selection for Clinically Node‐Negative Merkel Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

Objective Merkel cell carcinoma practice guidelines recommend sentinel lymph node biopsy after wide local excision for the initial management of clinically node‐negative disease without distant metastases (cN0M0). Despite guideline publication, treatment selection remains variable. We hypothesized that receipt of guideline‐recommended care would be more common in patients evaluated at academic centers and institutions with high melanoma case...