title: Hemimandibulectomy and therapeutic neck dissection with radiotherapy in the treatment of oral squamous cell carcinoma involving mandible: a critical review of treatment protocol in the years 1994-2004.
abstract: This retrospective non-randomized 10-year follow-up study compared 147 patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the oral cavity requiring hemimandibulectomy, treated by surgical resection, therapeutic neck dissection and radiotherapy. The 5-year survival rates were compared related to localization, size of the tumour, infiltration of locoregional lymph nodes, distant metastases, histopathological grading, radicality of surgery, and invasion of tumour into the mandible. Occurrence of tumour relapse and its localization was studied. The mean 5-year survival rate was 26%. Patients with SCC of the mandibular alveolar process had higher rates; the lowest rates occurred in SCC of the buccal mucosa. Survival rate was significantly lower with insufficient resection of the tumour (85% relapse). An important number of patients with radical resection died within 3 months of surgery. In almost 55% of the mandibles tumour was not present. In 5% of infiltrated mandibles, dissemination into inferior alveolar nerve was proven. Decreasing survival rate was seen with increasing size of tumour and higher histological grade. Therapeutic neck dissection significantly reduces survival rate and increases the percentage of lymph node relapse. Elective neck dissection should be performed in SCC requiring hemimandibulectomy. Primary reconstruction should reverse the high percentage of postoperative complication arising from increased radicality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic. jirina.hoff@centrum.cz <jirina.hoff@centrum.cz>
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hoffmannová
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Foltán
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vlk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sipos
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Horká
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pavlíková
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kufa
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bulík
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sedý
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D016015:Logistic Models; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000601:surgery*; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D037981:Neck Dissection; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate