Objectives: Assessment the results of neck dissection in head and neck cancer at Hue Central Hospital. Methods: A total 0125 patients with head and neck cancer who had undergone neck dissection at Department of Otoloryngology - Hue Central Hospital from 1/2012 to 6/2015. A prospective cohort study was conducted. Results: Neck lymph node in N1 staging on clinical examination was 52 percent, NO staging on neck ultrasound was 52 percent and CT scan was 44 percent. The level II, III and IV neck lymph groups were most of all neck lymph nodes. Modified neck dissection type 3 was done in 48 percent of all cases, selective neck dissection was done in 36 percent of all cases. Early complication of neck dissections was shoulder pain (24 percent), shoulder drop (20 percent), neck skin numbness (72 percent), neck sensory abnormality (40 percent), ear lobule sensory loss (28 percent). There were no chylous leakage, marginal mandibular nerve injury or hypoglosal nerve injury.
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