The benefit of abdominal sonography and chest X-ray for staging oral squamous cell carcinomas in stages UICC I and II

Abdominal sonography and chest X-ray can be omitted as a standard procedure in staging of localized node negative oral squamous cell carcinoma. A thoracic CT including the liver should be performed in patients with suspected lymph nodes metastases in the neck on CT. A skeletal scintigraphy or alternatively a PET/PET-CT should be added if there are signs and symptoms suspicious for bone metastases.