Neck Dissection

• • Modified Radical Neck Dissection preserves sternoclidomastoid, spinal accessory nerve, and/or jugular vein

  • Neck dissection takes omohyoid muscle, cervical lymphatics, facial vein and artery, superior thyroid vein, transverse cervical artery, cervical rootlets

Preoperative Considerations:

• 1. Shoulder roll to extend the neck

  2. Incise from mastoid posterior to SCM verticaly to hyoid

  3. Dissection:

     1. Posteriorly to anterior edge of trapezius

     2. Anteriorly to expose strap muscles

     3. Inferiorly to expose clavical and medial head of SCM