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ผู้ ป่ วยชายไทย อายุ 47 ปี อาชี พ รั บ จ้ า ง ภู มิลาํ เนาจั ง หวั ด สมุ ท รปราการ
CC : เริ่ ม คลํา ได้ ก้ อ นที่ ค อข้ า งซ้ า ยมา 3 เดื อ น
 3 เดือนก่อน เริ่ มคลําได้ ก้อนที่คอข้ างซ้ ายขนาดประมาณ 1 ซม. ก้ อน
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ค่อยๆโตขึ ้นและปวดเล็กน้ อย ต่อมาเริ่ มมีก้อนใหม่ขึ ้นที่คอข้ างขวา
ขนาดประมาณ 1 ซม.
 ไม่มีอาการกลืนอาหารลําบากและไม่สําลักอาหาร
 ไม่มีเสียงเปลี่ยน
 หายใจปกติ
 ไม่มีอาการเบื่ออาหารหรื อนํ ้าหนักลด
 ไม่ไข้
 ปฏิเสธโรคประจําตัว
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 ดื่มเบียร์ 1 กระป๋ อง/วัน นาน 10 ปี
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 สูบบุหรี่ 2 ซอง/วัน นาน 10 ปี
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 ปฏิเสธประวัติแพ้ ยาและอาหาร
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14/min, BP 110/60mmHg
 Neck
 1 fixed and firm to hard
mass 4x4 cm at Lt neck
zone III
 Multiple subcentimeter
LN at Lt neck zone II-IV
 2 movable and soft
masses 1.5 cm (each
nodes) at Rt neck zone III
 Thyroid : Can’t palpated
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 V/S : BT 37, PR 80/min, RR
 Normal skin of scalp, face and neck
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 Ear : Normal EAC and TM, Rinne +ve BE, Weber test :
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Not lateralized
Nasal cavity and nasopharynx (Nasal endoscope):
Normal
Oral cavity : Normal, Can’t palpable mass
Orolpharynx-Hypopharynx and Larynx (FOL) : Normal
Heart, Lungs and Abdomen : Normal
Cranial nerve : Normal
1. 47 years old Thai male
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2. Multiple bilateral neck mass (Lt neck zone III,II-IV, Rt
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neck zone III)
3. Smoking and alcohol drinking
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Differential diagnosis ?
•Lymphadenopathy/Lym
phadenitis
•Granulamatous disease
•Sialadenitis/sialolithiasi
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•Thyroglossal duct cyst
•Brachial cleft anomalies
•Dermoid cyst
•Teratomas
•Lymphangiomas
•Hemangiomas
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Congenital
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•Lymph node
•Metastatic
neoplasm
•Lymphoma
•Salivary glands
neoplasm
•Thyroid neoplasm
•Neurogenic neoplasm
•Schwannoma
•Neurofibroma
•Vascular neoplasm
•Paraganglioma
•AVM
•Lipoma
2nd Inflammation
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1st Neoplastic
1. Laboratory
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3. Imaging
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2. Pathology
 CBC
 Hb 12.6 g/dl, Hct 38.6%
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 LFT
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 Plalate 218,000/ul
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 WBC 7,730/ul (PMN 46.7%, LYM 37.7%, Eo4.3%)
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 TP 7.3, Albumin 4.2
 TB 1.3, DB 0.4, SGOT 25, SGPT 23
 ALP 63
 BUN 13 mg/dl, Cr 0.8 mg/dl
 Anti HIV : Negative
 Fine needle aspiration : Thin needle (usually 25-gauge)
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 First : Presence of malignant tumor (Lt,Rt), Morphologically
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favor SCCA
 Second : Metastatic SCCA (Lt,Rt)
 Sensitivity and specificity : 97%
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 Core needle aspiration (12-16 gauge)
 Open biopsy : Last resort for diagnosis
 Further management
 Prepared to proceed with comprehensive neck dissection
 CXR : Normal
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 CECT
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Finding
 Heterogeneous enhancing with central hypodensity with
ring enhancing mass at Lt neck level III and IV
 Invade Lt internal jugular vein
Metastatic Lymph node ?
Metastatic lymph node
1. Size
•Nodes >10-15 mm
•Potentially
malignant
•LN zone I : >15 mm
•LN zone II-V : >10 mm
•Nodes >20 mm
•Frequently
MRI
•Heterogeneously enhancing
malignant
•Best on post-contrast, fatnodes
•Retropharyngeal nodes
suppressed T1WIs
1. Muscle intensity on T1WI
•>10 mm in children
2. Ring enhancement on
or >5 mm in adults
postgadolinium fat•>8 mm
suppressed T1WI
2. Invasion or displacement
3. Very bright on STIR
of adjacent structures
4. Bright on T2WI
•Invasion of carotid artery
3. Indistinct margins
Invasion of carotid artery
Ultrasound
4. Enhancement pattern
•Best method : Tumor invasion •Loss of echogenic fascial
5. Location
plane between vessel wall and 6. Number
of carotid by extracapsular
spread from metastatic nodes tumor
7. Clustering
•Ultrasound combined with
8. Calcification
FNA
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•Size larger than 15 mm
•Ring enhancement
•Focal defect
•Round, rather than bean
shaped nodes
•Clusters of nodes
•Indistinct margins
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CECT
•Gold stand
•Most suprahyoid and
infrahyoid tumors or
inflammation
 Squamous cell carcinoma of cervical LN (Stage N2c)
Metastatic lesion
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1.
 Primary site
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Primary lesion
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 Unknown primary
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 From region and distant sites
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 Rare : 4-20 cases/year (Limited publication)
 Primary site : Common primary site ?
Location of neck mass ?
Common primary site ?
1. Ipsilateral tonsil
 Occult primary 20-40%
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 Levels 1, 2, and 3
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 Oral cavity
 Oropharynx and hypopharynx, and
 Can present with very small
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larynx
 Levels 2, 3, and 4
 Nasopharynx
 Level 5
 Supraclavicular
 Esophageal and pulmonary
primary sites
 Abdominal and pelvic locations
2. BOT : 2nd common
 Poorly prognosis
tonsil and BOT cancer with
enlarged neck node and
initially classified as
unknown primary
Regional
Distance
 More common
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1. Unknown primary
3. Other sites in H&N region
 Skin of ear, face, scalp, and neck
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 Enlarged LN in parotid, cheek,
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submandibular, or cervical region
4. Major and minor salivary glands
neoplasm
 Initially appears to be metastatic
lesion to neck mass level 1 or 2
5. Thyroid gland
 Not uncommonly initially presents
as neck mass
 Pulmonary
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2. SCCA of aerodigestive tract
 Esophageal
 Renal
 Ovarian
 Cervical
 Prostate
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PET/CT Imaging
Additional study
 Adjunct to complete work up
 EBV
 Determining site of disease of
 HPV-16
H&N
 Pinpoint specific area of
increase metabolic activity
 Specificity of 81.9%
positive results
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 To customize radiation target
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 Significant number of false-
occult primary = Tonsil or BOT
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 Sensitivity 62%
 Positive : Strongly suggests
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 Performed before pan-endoscopy
and biopsy
 Provide site to target
 Prevent false-positive
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1. Palpation of oropharyngeal subsites
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 BOT, tonsillar fossae and glossotonsillar sulci
Directed biopsies of BOT, nasopharynx and hypopharynx
3. +/- Ipsilateral tonsillectomy
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If not had previous tonsillectomy
Or in those with adequate lymphoid tissue remaining
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 Therapeutic benefit : Uncertain
 Because if treated without tonsillectomy : Only few develop clinical
significant primary tumor
 Panendoscope with biopsy
 Finding
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 Primary site
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 Minimal irregular surface of lateral wall of Lt pyriform sinus
 Erythema at laryngeal surface of epiglottis and posterior esophageal wall
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 Biopsy at posterior esophageal wall (17 cm), laryngeal surface of
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epiglottis, both pyriform sinus, BOT, tonsil, and nasopharynx
 Pathology report : Negative for malignancy
 Distance metastasis
 Ultrasound liver : Normal
 Bone scan : Normal
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 Group stage : 4A
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 Staging : T0N2cM0
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 Unknown primary SCCA of cervical LN
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Treatment : Choice ?
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 Finding
 3x4 cm firm Lt neck mass and invaded IJV zone II,III and IV
 Multiple LN 1 cm along Lt neck zone II-IV
 2 cm firm Rt neck mass
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 Pathology report
 Sift tissue with skin
 Mass 7.5x5.8x3.2 cm, composed of 5 LN ranging 1-1.6 cm
 Moderately differentiated SCCA
 Very close to deep resection line <0.1 cm
 Diffuse vascular emboli
 LN zone I-V : Metastatic SCCA with extranodal extension 1/10
nodes
 LN zone IIA : No tumor metastasis
 Unknown primary SCCA of cervical LN (T0N2cM0)
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 Pathology Report
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 S/P LT MRND
 Extranodal extension
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 Very close margin
Further treatment ?
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