Table 8.

Suggested guidelines for the treatment of the neck of patients with carcinomas of the skin

	Skin of scalp					Skin of neck			Skin of nose
	forehead	temple	mastoid region	parietal part of scalp	occipital scalp	nape, side of neck	ventral part of neck	supraclavi-cular region	root of the nose	other parts
submental (IA)
submandibular (IB)	i									i
ventral jugular sup. (IIA)	i	i	i	i	i	i		i	i	i
dorsal jugular sup. (IIB)					i
jugular medial (III)	i	i	i	i	i	i	b	i	i	i
jugular inferior (IV)						i	b	i
cerv. post. prof. (VA)						i
supraclavicular (VB)						i
cerv. ant. superf. (VI)							b
pretracheal (VI)							b
paratracheal (VI)							b
faciales	i									i
parotidal	i	i							i
external jugular					i
retroauricular			i	i
occipital					i
	Skin of face					Skin of ear
	lateral eyelid	medial eyelid	lacrimal gland, cheek	lower lip, chin	upper lip	anterior part	lower part	posterior part
submental (IA)				b
submandibular (IB)		i	i	b	i
ventral jugular sup. (IIA)	i	i	i	b	i	i	i	i
dorsal jugular sup. (IIB)
jugular medial (III)	i	i	i	b	i	i	i	i
jugular inferior (IV)							i
cerv. post. prof. (VA)
supraclavicular (VB)
cerv. ant. superf. (VI)
pretracheal (VI)
paratracheal (VI)
faciales		i
parotidal	i		i			i
external jugular							i
retroauricular								i
occipital