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Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Visualization in the Treatment of Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer
Published on: June 9, 2023
[Surgical treatment of advanced thyroid carcinoma with aero-digestive invasion]
Jun-heng Ge1, Rui-li Zhao, Jun-lan Hu
1Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050011, China. gejunheng1965@yahoo.com.cn
Objective:
To study the surgical management of the advanced thyroid carcinoma with aero-digestive invasion.
Methods:
To analyze 18 cases of advanced thyroid carcinoma which had aerodigestive invasion retrospectively, the patients were treated from 1988 to 1998.
Results:
The rate of aerodigestive invasion occur was 3.5% (18/516), The inner cavity invaded rate was 2.7% (14/516). The most invaded organ was trachea; The others were esophagus and larynx, pharynx; Two and/or more organs invaded rates were 44. 4% (8/18). The cases that survived 1, 3, 5 and 10 year were 17, 14, 9 and 6. The 5 years survival rates of the differentiated thyroid cancer (61.5%) were more higher than the undifferentiated thyroid cancer (20.0%), but there were no statistical difference between them (P > 0.05) and the same in clinical stage (P > 0.05).
Conclusions:
Intraluminal extension is a more serious problem in which usually extensive resection of the aerodigestive tract is required. Effective surgical treatment combined with postoperative auxiliary management for this kind of patients may achieve a good long term results.
