How do you manage SCC metastasis to the parotid with unknown primary?
How would your management change in an elderly patient with no surgery verus superficial parotidectomy or total parotidectomy?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Guidelines for this situation have been published:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22076982
After ruling out the possibility of a mucosal primary, in the setting of a presumed occult cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, I would typically suggest parotidectomy, with regional lymphadenectomy (for pati...
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