Lymph Node Metastases in Malignant Tumors of the Paranasal Sinuses

The medical records of 704 consecutive pa-tients surgically treated for malignant tumors of the pa-ranasal sinuses from January 1968 to March 2003 werereviewed. The tumors were staged according to Ameri-can Joint Committee on Cancer–International UnionAgainst Cancer 2002 classification. Only patients withclinically positive nodes underwent a neck dissection.