Standardised definitions and diagnostic criteria for extranodal extension detected on histopathological examination in head and neck cancer: Head and Neck Cancer International Group consensus recommendations

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute for Head and Neck Studies and Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ² Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Centre, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
• ³ Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, Nebraska Methodist Hospital and Methodist Women's Hospital, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ⁷ Department of Pathobiology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁸ School of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Department of Cellular Pathology, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Pathology, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pathology, Presbyterian University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
• ¹² Institute of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹³ Department of Anatomical Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
• ¹⁴ Department of Pathology, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium; Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ¹⁵ Department of Pathology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹⁶ Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
• ¹⁷ Division of Anatomical Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
• ¹⁸ Department of Pathology, Hospital Gui de Chauliac, Montpellier, France.
• ¹⁹ Department of Surgical Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India.
• ²⁰ National Cancer Centre Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ²¹ Department of Anatomic Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ²² Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
• ²³ Department of Pathological Anatomy, AC Camargo Cancer Centre, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
• ²⁴ Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ²⁵ Department of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
• ²⁶ Department of Advanced Diagnostics, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ²⁷ Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre, Shanghai, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• ²⁸ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ²⁹ Institute for Head and Neck Studies and Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].