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Should elective neck dissection be routinely performed in patients undergoing salvage total laryngectomy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2014

T F Pezier ,
I J Nixon ,
W Scotton ,
A Joshi ,
T Guerrero-Urbano ,
R Oakley ,
J-P Jeannon  and
R Simo
T F Pezier*
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
I J Nixon
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
W Scotton
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
A Joshi
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
T Guerrero-Urbano
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
R Oakley
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
J-P Jeannon
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
R Simo
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
*
Address for correspondence: Mr T Pezier, ORL-Klinik, University Hospital Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland E-mail: tfrpezier@gmail.com
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Abstract

Background:

The prevalence of occult neck metastasis in patients undergoing salvage total laryngectomy remains unclear, and there is controversy regarding whether elective neck dissection should routinely be performed.

Method:

A retrospective case note review of 32 consecutive patients undergoing salvage total laryngectomy in a tertiary centre was performed, in order to correlate pre-operative radiological staging with histopathological staging.

Results:

The median patient age was 61 years (range, 43–84 years). With regard to lymph node metastasis, 28 patients were pre-operatively clinically staged (following primary radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy) as node-negative, 1 patient was staged as N1, two patients as N2c and one patient as N3. Fifty-two elective and seven therapeutic neck dissections were performed. Pathological analysis up-staged two patients from clinically node-negative (following primary radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy) to pathologically node-positive (post-surgery). No clinically node-positive patients were down-staged. More than half of the patients suffered a post-operative fistula.

Conclusion:

Pre-operative neck staging had a negative predictive value of 96 per cent. Given the increased complications associated with neck dissection in the salvage setting, consideration should be given to conservative management of the neck in clinically node-negative patients (staged following primary radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy).

Keywords

LaryngectomyHead And Neck CancerSquamous Cell CarcinomaSalvage TherapyNeck Dissection

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 128 , Issue 3 , March 2014 , pp. 279 - 283
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 2014 

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Footnotes

Presented orally at the European Congress on Head and Neck Oncology Meeting, 18–21 April 2012, Poznan, Poland and at the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists Meeting, 26–27 April 2012, London, UK, and presented as a poster at the American Head and Neck Societies Meeting, 21–25 July 2012, Toronto, Canada.

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