Salvage treatment of recurrent skin cancer of the midface.
Nine patients with recurrent cutaneous cancers of the midface were treated by definitive surgery (with adjuvant radiotherapy in five individuals). The clinical courses were marked by local and regional relapses in six cases. Although the prognosis may be generally poor, aggressive therapy, as feasible, seems warranted in these patients because death was not typically rapid after reappearance of disease in several patients.
Ampil
Federico L
FL
Department of Radiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71130, USA.
Nathan
Cherie Ann O
CO
Lian
Timothy F
TF
Stucker
Fred J
FJ
Hardin
John C
JC
Aarstad
Robert F
RF
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D005145:Face; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D016879:Salvage Therapy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D016019:Survival Analysis