[The relationship between operation type, adjuvant radiation therapy, spinal accessory nerve and quality of life in patients with laryngeal cancer].

Objectives: In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of operation type, adjuvant radiation therapy (RT), and preserved spinal accessory nerve on the quality of life in patients with laryngeal cancer.

Patients And Methods: A total of 191 consecutive patients (185 males, 6 females; mean age 59±10 years; range 42 to 79 years) who were operated due to laryngeal cancer were included. The quality of life scores were estimated using the Washington University Quality of Life Questionnaire, version IV.

An indolent course of multiple myeloma mimicking a solitary thyroid cartilage plasmacytoma.

Multiple myeloma, solitary plasmacytoma, and extramedullary plasmacytoma constitute a continuum of a disease spectrum, which is called plasma cell neoplasms. These three entities can not be differentiated from each other on a histological basis and, for this reason, clinical evaluation is important in their differential diagnoses. Differential diagnosis guides the proper planning of treatment and helps in estimation of survival.