. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 6.

Published in final edited form as: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2011 Sep;145(3):428–434. doi: 10.1177/0194599811403075

Table 4.

Neck Dissection Characteristics

	#	%
Type of ND¹
RND²	22	24
MRND³ ^*	66	72
Selective ND	4	4
ND complications
At least one complication	28	32
At least one wound complication	17	19.3
Airway complication
Tracheotomy	11	12.5

Four patients underwent simultaneous bilateral NDs.

Abbreviations:

=neck dissection,

=radical neck dissection,

=modified radical neck dissection,