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<p>Early diagnosis and adequate surgical treatment are the key factors for the course of the laryngeal cancer of the head and neck and the outcome of the surgical treatment in these patients. The aim of the paper is to compare the characteristics of the surgically treated patients with the larynx carcinoma who developed recidivism to those who did not. The study was done as a retrospective observational case-control study on a total of 90 patients with the laryngeal cancer who had been successfully operated on and whose cases had been followed over a period of at least five years after the surgery. After that, they were shorted into two groups based on the development of recidivism, and clinical characteristics of the patients with and without recidive disease were compared. 19 out of 90 patients developed recidivism. Maximum diameter of the tumour was significantly larger in patients without local recidivism. In patients without local recidivism, most common clinical stages were 3 and 4 (32.4%, 40.8%, respectively), whereas in patients with local recidivism stages 1 and 2 were the most common (47.7%, 26.3%, respectively). The average time to disease recurrence in the 19 patients who developed local recidive disease was 648.10 (384.67-911.54) days. Pathohistological analysis showed that samller the size of the tumour and lower T grade at the moment of surgery are precautionary factors for further monitoring of patients with laryngeal cancer.</p>
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Early diagnosis and adequate surgical treatment are the key factors for the course of the laryngeal cancer of the head and neck and the outcome of the surgical treatment in these patients. The aim of the paper is to compare the characteristics of the surgically treated patients with the larynx carcinoma who developed recidivism to those who did not. The study was done as a retrospective observational case-control study on a total of 90 patients with the laryngeal cancer who had been successfully operated on and whose cases had been followed over a period of at least five years after the surgery. After that, they were shorted into two groups based on the development of recidivism, and clinical characteristics of the patients with and without recidive disease were compared. 19 out of 90 patients developed recidivism. Maximum diameter of the tumour was significantly larger in patients without local recidivism. In patients without local recidivism, most common clinical stages were 3 and 4 (32.4%, 40.8%, respectively), whereas in patients with local recidivism stages 1 and 2 were the most common (47.7%, 26.3%, respectively). The average time to disease recurrence in the 19 patients who developed local recidive disease was 648.10 (384.67-911.54) days. Pathohistological analysis showed that samller the size of the tumour and lower T grade at the moment of surgery are precautionary factors for further monitoring of patients with laryngeal cancer.

The Occurrence of Local Recidive in Patients with Planocellular Carcinoma of the Larynx

Experimental and Applied Biomedical Research (EABR)

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Early diagnosis and adequate surgical treatment are the key factors for the course of the laryngeal cancer of the head and neck and the outcome of the surgical...

The Occurrence of Local Recidive in Patients with Planocellular Carcinoma of the Larynx

Published Online: Apr 05, 2023

Page range: 33 - 40

Received: Feb 24, 2020

Accepted: Apr 07, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjecr-2020-0037

Keywords
Larynx, planocellular carcinoma, survival, recidivism

© 2023 Dejan Jovanovic et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Occurrence of Local Recidive in Patients with Planocellular Carcinoma of the Larynx

Published Online: Apr 05, 2023

Page range: 33 - 40

Received: Feb 24, 2020

Accepted: Apr 07, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjecr-2020-0037

KeywordsLarynx, planocellular carcinoma, survival, recidivism

© 2023 Dejan Jovanovic et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Larynx, planocellular carcinoma, survival, recidivism