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Gui-yi Tu, MD; Yu-hua Hu, MD; Guo-zhen Xu, MD; Ming Ye, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1988;114(3):328-329.

Abstract
• Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is not a disease to be treated primarily by surgery. Radiation is the first choice of treatment. But, once it recurs, a second course of radiation controls only a small portion of the patients, with a high risk of accumulated radiation injury. We discuss the outcome of salvage surgery in nine cases of nasopharyngeal recurrence and 69 cases of neck metastasis that was uncontrolled or had recurred after irradiation was evaluated. A five-year survival rate of 44% for the primary lesions and 49% for the neck node metastases justifies the rationale of surgery on selected cases of radiation failure.

(Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1988;114:328-329)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Head and Neck Surgery (Drs Tu and Ye) and Radiation Oncology (Drs Hu and Xu), Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 9, 1987.

Read before the 29th annual meeting of the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery, Denver, April 30, 1987.

Reprints not available.

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