Publications by authors named "Keisuke Kurata"
Article Synopsis
- The study assessed the effects of prophylactic neck dissection and additional therapy on patients undergoing transoral surgery for hypopharyngeal cancer from 2015 to 2021.
- Out of 221 patients, a high 3-year local recurrence-free survival rate of 89.1% was observed, but positive margins led to higher rates of regional recurrence and distant metastasis, though local recurrence did not affect overall survival.
- The conclusion suggests that monitoring for recurrences is important and that prophylactic neck dissection might not be essential for all patients with positive margins.
Objective: Transoral surgery is a minimally invasive treatment but may cause severe dysphagia at a lower rate than chemoradiotherapy.
Methods: We compared clinical information, surgical complications, and swallowing function in patients who underwent transoral nonrobotic surgery for laryngo-pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma between 2015 and 2021 in a multicenter retrospective study.
Results: Six hundred and forty patients were included.
Background: Hypopharyngeal carcinoma is likely to spread to the lymph nodes, but there is no established strategy for management in transoral surgery.
Methods: We compared oncologic and functional outcomes in a retrospective multicenter study of patients who underwent transoral surgery for hypopharyngeal carcinoma between 2015 and 2021.
Results: Two-hundred and thirty-two patients were included.
Background: Late laryngopharyngeal cancers after transoral surgery include not only local recurrences but also metachronous multiple cancers.
Methods: We compared clinical information, surgical outcomes, and late laryngopharyngeal cancers in patients who underwent transoral nonrobotic surgery for laryngopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma without lymph node metastases between 2015 and 2021 in a multicenter retrospective study.
Results: Four hundred and fifty-seven patients were included.