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Table I

Clinical and Pathologic Characteristics of Patients with SCC of Tongue With Cervical Nodal Necrosis (CNN) (CNN Group) or Without CNN (Non-CNN Group) on Preoperative MR Imaging.

Characteristics 144 CNN (80) No CNN (64) P value
Male 87 55 32 0.792
Female 57 25 32  
h/o smoking 75 48 27 0.435
No h/o 69 30 39  
Maximum node size (mm), mean ± SD 18.2 ± 1.1 27.9 ± 8.4 12.5 ± 7.5 mm 0.031
Histopathological grade 32 12 20 0.032
Grade 1 63 35 28  
Grade 2 49 33 16  
Grade 3        
Depth of invasion (mm), mean ± SD 18.3 ± 9.2 19.6 ± 11.5 16.9 ± 7.5 0.050
cT1 8 5 3 0.586
T2 52 28 24  
T3 74 40 34  
T4 10 7 3  
cN1 91 48 43 0.004
N2 43 24 19  
N3 10 8 2  
SURGERY 27 8 19 0.521
SURGERY +RT 47 26 21  
SURGERY +CTRT 70 46 24  
Extranodal extension 54 44 10 0.003

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