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It is very significant that most of cervical metastases number of patients are necessary to confirm the results
from SCC of the maxilla in the analysed series (71%) obtained from this study.
corresponded with a tumour size larger than 4 cm (T3
and T4 tumours). This rate of cervical metastases from Financial support and sponsorship
big-sized tumours may suggest performing elective neck Nil.
dissection only in patients with advanced disease. This
finding has been observed by an American multicenter Conflicts of interest
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study by Montes et al. about maxillary SCC, which There are no conflicts of interest.
reported a high percentage of cervical metastases in
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