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Supracricoid partial laryngectomy with cricohyoidopexy and cricohyoidoepiglottopexy: functional and oncological results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

Ahmet Rifat Karasalihoglu
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.
Recep Yagiz
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.
Abdullah Tas
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.
Cem Uzun
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.
Mustafa Kemal Adali
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.
Muhsin Koten
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.

Abstract

Sixty-eight patients who presented with glottic and glottosupraglottic squamous cell carcinoma and who were managed in this department with supracricoid partial laryngectomy (SCPL) with either cricohyoidoepiglottopexy (CHEP) or cricohyoidopexy (CHP), were retrospectively reviewed. The authors analysed the functional and oncological results of the patients. The median follow-up period was 62 months. The average times until decannulation and nasogastric feeding tube removal were 27.7 and 26.4 days, respectively. All patients were successfully decannulated. All patients were able to swallow, but one patient was unable to swallow and had recurrent aspiration. Better functional results were achieved in patients managed with CHEP procedure than the patients managed with CHP procedure. The five-year absolute and cause-specific actuarial survival rates (Kaplan-Meier method) were 78.6 per cent and 93.9 per cent, respectively. The five-year actuarial local control and nodal control rates were 89.5 per cent and 90.4 per cent, respectively. Local recurrence was statistically more likely in patients with positive resection margins (p <0.006). Overall, local control and laryngeal preservation were achieved in 95.6 per cent and 89.7 per cent, respectively. Supracricoid partial laryngectomy procedures (CHEP and CHP) are possible alternatives to total laryngectomy in the treatment of selected advanced glottic and glottosupraglottic carcinomas.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 Royal Society of Medicine Press

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