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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1978-12-20
pubmed:abstractText
During the decade of 1964 through 1973, thirty-four patients with advanced squamous carcinoma of the base of the tongue (20 with T3 lesions and 14 with T4 lesions) were treated by surgical resection. These patients underwent an operative procedure as the only and definitive form of treatment. Twenty-eight (82.3 per cent) presented with clinically positive cervical nodal metastases (4 staged N1, 13 staged N2, and 11 staged N3). The number of primary lesions controlled, cervical metastasis, and the failures of treatment were analyzed. The patients were followed for a minimum of two years or until death or recurrence. The determinate control at two years was 27 per cent and the final determinate survival 20 per cent. Fifteen patients (44.2 per cent) required laryngectomy as part of the primary surgical treatment. The surgical procedures used and other therapeutic options available are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0002-9610
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
136
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
501-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1978
pubmed:articleTitle
Surgical treatment of advanced carcinomas of the base of the tongue.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article