Conservative Surgery of Hypopharyngeal Cancer and Intraoperative Radiation Therapy of Neck Recurrence |
Woo-Sung Cho;Yang Soo Kim;Moo-Pil Kim;Seung-Kuk Baek;Kwang-Yoon Jung |
하인두암의 보존적 수술과 경부 재발의 술중방사선치료 치험 1예 |
조우성;김양수;김무필;백승국;정광윤 |
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Abstract |
Hypopharyngeal cancer usually has invasiveness to adjacent tissue and frequent metastasis to cervical lymph node. In addition, because it often accompanies submucosal extension and second primary malignancy, the sacrifice of larynx and postoperative radiation therapy had been performed in the past. However, it has been reported that conservative surgery of hypopharyngeal cancer show good functional and oncologic outcome according to the development of diagnostic tool and reconstructive technique. We report a case of hypopharyn-geal cancer that received conservative surgery followed radiation therapy and intraoperative radiation therapy for neck recurrence. |
Key Words:
Hypopharyngeal cancer, Surgery, Radiation therapy |