Table 2.

Occipital lymph node metastases from different diseases

Authors/year	Sex/age	Primary disease	Histology	Treatment	Result
Tian et al. [13]/1992	5 patients:	Absent	Squamous cell carcinoma	Resection	Three survived (median follow-up, 68 months)
	M/30Y,				Survived
	F/40Y,				Died
	M/45Y,				Died
	F/37Y,				Survived
	M/52Y				Survived
Tian et al. [13]/1992	M/22Y	Sweat gland tumor	Syringocarcinoma	Resection	Died
Tian et al. [13]/1992	M/26Y	Absent	Melanoma	Resection	Survived (follow-up, 115 months)
He et al. [15]/1996	F/53Y	Lung cancer	Squamous cell carcinoma	Treatment refusal	Absent
Lin et al. [17] /1997	F/75Y	Thyroid cancer	Thyroid papillary microcarcinoma	Resection	Died after 17 months of treatment
Sheth et al. [14]/2010	F/45Y	Sweat gland tumor	Mucinous eccrine carcinoma	Chemotherapy + radiotherapy	Died 8 years after the first treatment
Kamper et al. [16]/2011	F/69Y	Lung cancer	Bronchial carcinoma	Chemotherapy + radiotherapy	Absent
Karabeir et al. [18]/2011	F/82Y	Thyroid cancer	Thyroid follicular carcinoma	Absent	Absent

F female; M male; Y years