著者

市川 良之 井本 祥子 中島 築 海野 徳二 白戸 勝 川堀 真一 高橋 光明 中村 晃 熊井 恵美 野中 聡 長島 泰行 金井 直樹

出版者

The Society of Practical Otolaryngology

雑誌

耳鼻咽喉科臨床 補冊 (ISSN:09121870)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1987, no.15, pp.86-94, 1987

被引用文献数

1

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A clinical evaluation was conducted on 107 patients with laryngeal cancer treated in our department between 1976 and 1985. Their mean age was 64.0 years, and the male to female ratio was 12: 1. Histopathologically, squamous cell carcinoma was the most common malignant tumor constituting 97.2% of all the cases, whereas there were only 3 cases of verrucous carcinoma. There were 52 cases of glottis,52of supraglottis and 3 of subglottis. The overall five-year survival rate was 62.7%. The five-year survival rates for Stages I to IV were 74.6%,84.9%,54.2% and 31.1%, respectively. As the five-year survival rate of T4 cases was 0%, more aggresive therapies such as combinations of extended operation, irradiation and chemotherapy appear to be required in such cases. In our clinic, the patients with metastases to the cervical lymph nodes at preoperation were treated with radical neck dissection combined with the total laryngectomy in most cases. Radical neck dissection for such patients decreases the number of death due to uncontrolled metastases to the cervical lymph nodes. In the cases of the advanced stage, careful postoperative examination is required.