Long-term outcome after endoscopic resection in patients with hypopharyngeal carcinoma invading the subepithelium: a case series.
Patients with early stage hypopharyngeal carcinoma can be treated with endoscopic resection. However, strict indication for endoscopic resection in cases of hypopharyngeal carcinoma is unclear. In this paper, we evaluated the long-term outcome after endoscopic resection in patients with hypopharyngeal carcinoma invading the subepithelium. Among 16 patients with hypopharyngeal carcinoma who underwent endoscopic resection, eight patients who were histologically confirmed to have tumors with shallow invasion of the subepithelium were studied. Depth of tumor invasion in the subepithelium in those patients ranged from 300 to 720 microm (mean +/- SD, 490 +/- 140 microm). During a median follow-up period of 40 months, none of the eight patients had local recurrence or metastasis. Kaplan-Meier estimates of relapse-free survival rates at 5 years in the eight patients were 100 %. The results of this study suggest that hypopharyngeal carcinoma with slight invasion to the subepithelium can be successfully treated by endoscopic resection.
Shimizu
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Y
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan. yshimizu@med.hokudai.ac.jp
Yoshida
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T
Kato
M
M
Ono
S
S
Nakagawa
M
M
Homma
A
A
Oridate
N
N
Asaka
M
M