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[Esophagectomy for epidermoid cancer discovered during evaluation of ENT cancer]
D Elias1, M Manai, P Eggenspieler
1Service de Chirurgie Carcinologieque, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif.
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The treatment of synchronous esophageal and head and neck carcinomas is difficult.
Material And Method:
Retrospective study of 33 patients treated with esophagectomy for an intrathoracic squamous cells carcinoma discovered during pan-endoscopy for a synchronous head and neck cancer.
Results:
In 7 cases (21%) it was advanced (pT3-4) esophageal cancers. The hospital mortality was 9%. Five year survival was 18% without stabilization of the survival curve, 60% of patients died of recurrence of tumor.
Conclusion:
Esophagectomy is suitable for usT1-2 tumors if surgery is also indicated for the head and neck tumor. Radiochemotherapy is indicated for advanced usT3-4 esophageal tumors or when the treatment of the head and neck tumor is not surgery.