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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 16.
Published in final edited form as: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2015 Mar 6;152(4):673–677. doi: 10.1177/0194599815572585

Table 4.

Positive Nodes at Each Neck Level in the Current Studya and Published Data by Shah et al.2

Level I Level II Level III Level IV Level V
Current study, n (%) 15/138 (10.9) 22/138 (15.9) 10/138 (7.2) 2/138 (1.4) 0/138 (0.0)
Shah et al,2 n (%) 38/192 (19.8) 21/192 (10.9) 17/192 (8.9) 6/192 (3.1) 1/192 (0.5)
P value .03 .18 .60 .48 .99
a

Two patients had insufficient documentation of the location of the involved node and were excluded from these calculations.