Hostname: page-component-76d6cb85b7-xh428 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-07-11T09:51:49.152Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Surgical salvage in postcricoid cancer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

P. H. Jones
Affiliation:
Manchester
W. T. Farrington*
Affiliation:
Manchester
J. S. Weighill
Affiliation:
Manchester
*
Mr. Trevor Farrington, Department of Otolaryngology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL.

Summary

Twenty-one total pharyngo-laryngectomies have been performed at the Manchester Royal Infirmary between 1968 and 1982. A variety of methods of repair have been used, gastric transposition being the most common. Seventeen patients had received previous radiotherapy to the area, fourteen radical, two palliative and one to a supraglottic carcinoma 12 years before. Four had tumours judged to be too large to benefit from radiotherapy.

Of the patients who received radiotherapy, fourteen had a good response with palliation for an average of ten months before symptoms began to return.

Four patients survived over five years post-operatively and ten died following surgery.

Information

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1986

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable