Fig. 5

(A) Current neck dissection pathologic processing protocol. Candidate lymph nodes in specimen are separated out by palpation and examined histologically. Most of the remaining adipose tissue is stored for future processing as needed and therefore this volume of tissue is not accounted for. (B) Revised protocol based on the findings of Holcomb et al. [15] In this protocol all additional fatty tissue is processed thereby accounting for the entire specimen volume