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Are you routinely considering treating p16 positive, nonsmokers, occult primary with pharyngeal sparing technique in patients who have undergone extensive TORS workup?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Michigan

Sparing the pharyngeal constrictors in unknown primary cases should not differ from standard practice in which only the lateral RPN nodes are considered at risk. The only cases where the medial retropharyngeal nodes are at risk (which would prevent constrictor sparing) are cases of posterior pharyng...

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