The lingual lymph nodes in patients with tongue and floor of the mouth carcinoma: case reports summary and revision of the anatomical terminology

A summary of clinical cases describing lesions of lingual lymph nodes in cancer of the tongue and the floor of the mouth is presented. For the first time, a revision of special anatomical terminology was performed on such material. Topographic and anatomical information on the intermuscular fascial spaces of the tongue and the floor of the oral cavity throughout which subgroups of lingual lymph nodes are distributed is provided.