Metastatic patterns of squamous carcinoma in the parotid lymph nodes.

The clinical and pathological patterns of squamous carcinoma of the skin metastasising to the parotid lymph nodes have been analysed in 28 patients in whom such metastasis occurred over the period 1972 to 1981. Prognosis appears to be closely related to whether tumour has spread out with the nodes into the parenchyma of the parotid gland or is still confined within the nodes.