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The role of central neck dissection and adjuvant treatment in pT4aN0 laryngeal carcinoma treated with open partial horizontal laryngectomy
The study aimed to identify parameters that could predict oncological and functional outcomes in patients with pT4aN0 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) who underwent open partial horizontal laryngectomy...
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Open AccessCurrent Status of Partial Laryngeal Surgery for Advanced Laryngeal Cancer: When and Why?
This paper aims to evaluate the evolution and current status of partial laryngeal surgery in the treatment of advanced laryngeal cancer (LC). Specifically, recent progress in the selection of both patients and...
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Horizontal Partial Supracricoid Laryngectomy with Crico-Hyoidopexy or Crico-Hyoido-Epiglottopexy
Surgery can be offered to patients as a valuable method to preserve part of the larynx and its functions (phonation and swallowing), avoiding the negative physical and psychosocial impact of a permanent trache...
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Open AccessRisky anatomical variations of sphenoid sinus and surrounding structures in endoscopic sinus surgery
This study aimed to examine the relationship between the sphenoid sinus (SS) and surrounding vital structures such as the internal carotid artery (ICA) and optic nerve canal (ONC) as well as the types of attac...
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Open Neck Approaches: Partial and Reconstructive Laryngectomies
Surgery can be offered to patients as a valid method for preserving part of the larynx and its functions (phonation and swallowing), avoiding the negative physical and psychosocial impacts of a permanent trach...
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Open partial horizontal laryngectomy and adjuvant (chemo)radiotherapy for laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: results from a multicenter Italian experience
To evaluate the functional and oncologic outcomes of adjuvant (chemo)radiation [(C)RT] after open partial horizontal laryngectomies (OPHLs).
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Open AccessEuropean white paper: oropharyngeal dysphagia in head and neck cancer
To develop a European White Paper document on oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) in head and neck cancer (HNC). There are wide variations in the management of OD associated with HNC across Europe.
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The Penetration–Aspiration Scale: Adaptation to Open Partial Laryngectomy and Reliability Analysis
A standard for assessing swallowing function after open partial horizontal laryngectomy (OPHL) is still not established. The variability in the measures used to investigate swallowing functional outcomes after...
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Relationship between swallowing-related quality of life and fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing in patients who underwent open partial horizontal laryngectomy
Several studies have previously analyzed the relationship between QOL and signs of dysphagia in patients treated for head and neck cancer and have reported heterogeneous findings. To the best of our knowledge,...
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Management of T4a Laryngeal Cancer
The aim of this study is to compare the results of surgical and non-surgical approach for T4a laryngeal cancer in term of curative effects, complications, and functional results by means of a systematic review...
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Telephonic voice intelligibility after laryngeal cancer treatment: is therapeutic approach significant?
The aim was to investigate telephonic voice intelligibility in patients treated for laryngeal cancer using different approaches. In total, 90 patients treated for laryngeal cancer using different approaches an...
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Functional outcomes after supracricoid laryngectomy: what do we not know and what do we need to know?
Supracricoid laryngectomies (SCLs) are conservative organ-sparing surgical techniques for the treatment of selected T2–T4 laryngeal carcinomas. Although these procedures allow preserving the larynx and its fun...
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Open AccessNasopharyngeal fiberendoscopy in children: a survey of current Italian pediatric otolaryngological practices
Nasopharyngeal fiberendoscopy (NFE) is the gold standard diagnostic procedure for adenoidal disease, but there is no consensus concerning the optimal technical approach. The aim of this study was to investigat...
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Open AccessPharyngo-jugular fistula after “salvage” total laryngectomy: a case report
We present a rare case of pharyngo-jugular fistula in a patient who underwent salvage total laryngectomy after organ-sparing radiochemotherapy.
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Reply to the comment to the article “Open partial horizontal laryngectomies: a proposal for classification by the working committee on nomenclature of the European Laryngological Society”
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Well and intermediate differentiated laryngeal chondrosarcoma: toward conservative surgery?
Chondrosarcoma of the larynx is a relatively rare malignant tumor. In the world literature, only 600 cases of laryngeal chondrosarcoma (LCS) have been reported. It is the most frequent non-epithelial tumor of ...
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Open AccessNon-human immunodeficiency virus-related Kaposi’s sarcoma of the oropharynx: a case report and review of the literature
Kaposi’s sarcoma is a malignant, slowly progressing, mesenchymal neoplasm characterized by a proliferation of connective tissue and capillaries. Clinical presentation is usually as nodules and red-purple plaqu...
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Il carcinoma laringeo
Ogni anno in Italia vengono diagnosticati circa 5.200 nuovi casi di tumore laringeo. Di questi, il 55–60% sono early cancer (definiti dall’American Joint Commitee on Cancer come tumori T1 o T2 senza interessament...
