Surgical treatment of hypopharyngeal cancer

Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate our department’s approach to the treatment of hypopharyngeal tumors, the features of thetumors, the survival analyses and to present our results in the light of the literature.Patients and Methods: Eighty-one hypopharyngeal tumor patients and four patients with undefined primary origin, those patientswith undefined origin have tumors that infiltrate both hypopharynx and cervical esophagus, totally 85 patients (56 males, 29 females;mean age 54.6±13.4 years; range, 23 to 81 years) who underwent surgical treatment, were included in this study. Demographic data,tumor characteristics, and treatment protocols were recorded retrospectively.Results: Patients were classified on the primary subsite of the hypopharynx: 51% originated from the sinus piriformis, 29% from thepostcricoid area, 15% from the posterior wall of the pharynx and only 5% from the cervical esophagus. The relationship between sexand hypopharyngeal subsite was statistically significant (p