Table III. Recurrences: distribution of cases according to neck treatment in advanced stages (stratified according to clinical stage and total population).

			Clinical stages III-IV
	Local	Dissected neck	Untreated neck	Distant metastasis	Local + treat. neck	Local + dist. met.
	n. (%)
Group 1 (n = 105)	21 (20.8)	8 (7.9)	3 (3.0)	9 (8.9)	5 (5.0)	2 (2.0)
Group 2 (n = 9)	2 (22.2)	1 (11.1)	(0)	(0)	1 (11.0)	(0)