Review Article
Year: 2020 | Month: October | Volume: 7 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 306-310
A Comprehensive Review of Conventional Incisions in the Neck for Neck Dissections
Sabreen N
Department of ENT and Head Neck Surgery, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College and Hospital, Kolar.
ABSTRACT
Objective: To evaluate the four commonly used incisions for neck dissections and their basis for choosing an incision. This paper highlights the conventional types of skin incisions used in neck dissections are defined to their advantages and disadvantages and some modifications of neck incisions used in neck dissections. Neck incisions are based on sound anatomical aspects of neck, time taken to raise and close the flaps, accessibility to the neck lymph nodes, injury to vital structures and scar cosmesis are the various factors to be considered while choosing an incision.
Materials and methods: This is a short review of articles chosen randomly on neck incisions to understand both conventional and modified incisions used in neck dissections.
Conclusion: Neck dissections are frequently discussed and updated, while neck incisions are rarely prioritized. Though nodal disease clearance is of the paramount importance. Choice of incisions can increase an overall prognosis with good accessibility and providing good quality of life through superior cosmesis. Identifying the properties of neck incisions can help in its application for different types of neck dissections, instead of approaching the neck through one standardised incision.
Keywords: cutaneous neck incisions, neck dissections, cosmesis.
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