Major surgery of oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma
| Autor: | Kranold Dh, Sellars Sl, Gallow I, Jones Ta, Sealy Gr |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Oral cavity Postoperative Complications medicine Overall survival Humans Aged Primary procedure business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged Combined Modality Therapy Squamous carcinoma Surgery Survival Rate Radiation therapy Oropharyngeal Neoplasms Otorhinolaryngology Oropharyngeal Carcinoma Carcinoma Squamous Cell Female Mouth Neoplasms Salvage surgery business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 106:127-129 |
| ISSN: | 1748-5460 0022-2151 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0022215100118870 |
| Popis: | Thirty-two composite resections were carried out in the Department of Otolaryngology at Groote Schuur Hospital for oral and oro-pharyngeal squamous carcinoma over the 10-year period, 1977–1986. Three patients were lost to review but all others were followed up to death or to five years. Twenty-seven patients underwent surgery as their primary procedure and five for recurrence after primary radiotherapy. The overall survival was 16 patients at three years and eight at five years. Only one of the five patients who underwent salvage surgery after failed radiotherapy was alive at five years and all five experienced serious postoperative complications. All thosesurviving over five years had had either N0 or N1, disease at the time of presentation for surgery. |
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