Intraoperative modification of a supracricoid laryngectomy to a subtotal laryngectomy with tracheohyoidoepiglottopexy.

In recent decades, with the widespread diffusion of the supracricoid laryngectomy in the treatment of selected advanced laryngeal neoplasm, the indications to non-conservative surgery are less frequent than in past. We report the case of a patient in whom a planned supracricoid laryngectomy was intraoperatively converted in an extended partial laryngectomy with tracheohyoidoepiglottopexy for a tumor involving the cricoid cartilage.

P27 and MIB-1 expression is related to malignancy recurrence in laryngeal carcinoma treated with partial laryngectomy: preliminary results.

Objective: Considerable evidence has confirmed that p27 protein plays a negative role in cell-cycle progression from the G1 to the S phase and is considered a tumour suppressor. p27 down-regulation was demonstrated in several malignancies. Only a few studies investigated p27's potential prognostic role in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).

Maspin nuclear localization is related to reduced density of tumour-associated micro-vessels in laryngeal carcinoma.

Background: MASPIN, a tumour suppressing serpin, is a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis. CD105 is a proliferation-associated protein acting in endothelial cells of angiogenic tissues. For the first time the relation between nuclear MASPIN expression and CD105-assessed micro-vessel density (MVD) in laryngeal carcinoma was investigated.

Expression of the apoptosis inhibitor protein Survivin in primary laryngeal carcinoma and cervical lymph node metastasis.

Background: Survivin is the smallest mammalian member of the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) proteins family. The aim of the present study was to determine survivin expression in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and in neck lymph node metastases. The survivin value in predicting prognosis in laryngeal SCC was also investigated.

Distant muscular (gluteus maximus muscle) metastasis from laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Clinical evidence of non-lymphatic distant metastasis has been reported in approximately 10% of cases of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The lungs are the commonest site of distant metastasis of HNSCC, followed by the bones, liver and skin. A 65-year-old male underwent supraglottic laryngectomy and left modified neck dissection for a carcinoma of the laryngeal surface of the epiglottis extending to both false cords.