Anaplastic Carcinoma of the Larynx Occurring in a Young Woman
| Autor: | Edward Goodsitt, John Storer |
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| Rok vydání: | 1959 |
| Předmět: |
Larynx
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Medical record General surgery Carcinoma Distant metastasis General Medicine Laryngeal Neoplasm medicine.disease Medical Records Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Otorhinolaryngology Age groups medicine Humans Female Anaplastic carcinoma business Laryngeal Neoplasms Larynx neoplasm |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 70:466-470 |
| ISSN: | 0886-4470 |
| Popis: | Carcinoma of the larynx is predominately a disease of males and is most frequently seen in the older age groups. Weinstein, 1 in his case report, states that the average age of persons with disease is 60, and 92% of them are men. He reported a case of well differentiated squamous-cell carcinoma in a Negro woman, age 19, treated successfully by complete laryngectomy. In the series of 93 cases reported by Negus, 2 90 were men, although his youngest patient was a woman, age 26. In the series reported by Martin, 3 the youngest patient was a woman of 25. Other reports of laryngeal carcinoma are those of Lejeune and Lynch, 4 age 20; Orton, 5 age 12½; Walsh and Beamer, 6 ages 12 and 13, and Jackson and Jackson, 7 age 3 years. These cases, except that of Orton, showed no evidence of distant metastasis. In his case, metastases |
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