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How would you manage a high grade acinic cell carcinoma of the parotid with isolated recurrence in the ipsilateral neck s/p salvage resection?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida

High grade acinic cell is practically a misnomer. At any rate, badly behaved. If really high grade at the outset, neck should have been irradiated. Now ipsilateral neck. Tempted to include the primary site. Contralateral neck low risk.

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Radiation Oncology · Wake Forest School of Medicine

For this patient with a neck recurrence and (presumably) no evidence of primary site recurrence who had been treated with RT previously to the parotid bed, I would treat ipsilateral neck levels IB, II, III, IV, and V. While IB coverage may be controversial, if the recurrence was in level II, I would...

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