Open AccessPost - Laryngectomy Neck Node Metastasis
Author(s) -
Kashif Malik,
Ghulam Mustafa Arain,
Zubair Iqbal Bhutta
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
annals of king edward medical university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2079-7192
pISSN - 2079-0694
DOI - 10.21649/akemu.v9i3.1348
Subject(s) - medicine , laryngectomy , lymph node metastasis , lymph node , surgery , metastasis , primary tumor , disease , cancer , larynx
Neck recurrence after total Laryngectomy in 45 patients was studied with the reference to risk factors & efficacy of surgical treatment for the control of disease. Age, smoking, duration and progression of symptoms, degree of differentiation, site and size of primary tumor were the parameters that affected the lymph node metastasis. In all the patient recurrence was at level 2 and 3. Surgery was found to be the best treatment modality for such recurrence