A simple predictive model for postoperative mortality after head and neck cancer surgery with opening of mucosa.

The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for the mortality during the first 30 days after a major head and neck cancer surgery. Two hundred and sixty one consecutive surgical procedure were prospectively studied at Oscar Lambret Cancer Centre within a 36-months period. Twenty variables were recorded for each patient.

Treatment of laryngeal cancer: the permanent challenge.

There are many options to treat larynx cancers. Throughout the 20th century, surgical research has provided many partial surgery techniques (either open surgery or endoscopic CO2 surgery). In parallel, the modification of radiotherapy schedules has notably improved the local control with definitive irradiation.

Prognostic significance of wound infections following major head and neck cancer surgery: an open non-comparative prospective study.

Objective: We evaluated the incidence, risk factors and consequences of wound infection (WI) following major head and neck cancer surgery in an open non-comparative study.

Patients And Methods: The study group, comprising 95 patients who underwent clean-contaminated procedures with opening of the upper aerodigestive tract for biopsy-proven squamous cell cancer, were studied over a 1-year period. Antibiotic prophylaxis was amoxicillin and clavulanic acid.

Previous chemotherapy as a predictor of wound infections in nonmajor head and neck surgery: Results of a prospective study.

Background: The goal of this prospective study was to determine the incidence of wound infections (WI) after clean uncontaminated head and neck cancer procedures and after emergency tracheotomies.

Methods: Two hundred twelve clean procedures without tracheotomy or opening of mucosa (neck dissections, large skin resections, thyroidectomies, parotid gland resections, and explorative cervicotomies) were studied at Oscar Lambret Cancer Center over a 24-month period.

Results: WI rate was 6.

[Induction chemotherapy and larynx preservation: is such practice useful?].

Background: Surgery followed by irradiation is considered to be the standard treatment but require frequently a total laryngectomy. Chemotherapy followed by irradiation is available in larynx and hypopharynx squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) treatment. Are results obtained in daily induction chemotherapy usefulness identical to results obtained in larynx preservation studies?

Patients And Method: We conducted a retrospective study on patients treated at centre Oscar-Lambret, Lille, from 1986 to 1995, by chemotherapy followed by definitive radiotherapy or by surgery and radiotherapy for laryngeal or hypopharyngeal cancer treatment.