THE INFLUENCE OF POSITIVE MARGINS AND NERVE INVASION IN ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA OF THE HEAD AND NECK TREATED WITH SURGERY AND RADIATION
THE INFLUENCE OF POSITIVE MARGINS AND NERVE INVASION IN ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA OF THE HEAD AND NECK TREATED WITH SURGERY AND RADIATION
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DOI:
10.1016/0360-3016(95)00122-f
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发表时间:
1995-06-15
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7
通讯作者:
PETERS, LJ
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作者:
GARDEN, AS;WEBER, RS;PETERS, LJ
Purpose: Surgery is the primary treatment for adenoid cystic carcinomas arising from major and minor salivary glands of the head and neck. However, local recurrence is frequent because of the infiltrative growth pattern and perineural spread associated with these tumors. At UTMDACC, we have had a long-standing policy of using postoperative radiotherapy to reduce the risk of local recurrence and to avoid the need for radical surgery; this 30-year retrospective study analyzes the results of this combined modality approach.Methods and Materials: Between 1962 and 1991, 198 patients ages 13-82 years, with adenoid cystic carcinomas of the head and neck, received postoperative radiotherapy for known or suspected microscopic residual disease following surgery. Distribution of primary sites was: parotid: 30 patients; submandibular/sublingual: 41 patients; lacrimal: 5 patients; and minor Salivary glands: 122 patients. Eighty-three patients (42%) had microscopic positive margins and an additional 55 (28%) had close (less than or equal to 5 mm) or uncertain margins. One hundred thirty-six patients (69%) had perineural spread with invasion of a major (named) nerve in 55 patients (28%). Using radiation techniques appropriate to the primary site, a median dose of 60 Gy (range 50-69 Gy) was delivered to the tumor bed. Follow-up ranged from 5-341 months (median, 93 months). All surviving patients had a minimum of 2 years follow-up.Results: Twenty-three patients (12%) had local recurrences with 5-, 10-, and 15-year actuarial local control rates of 95%, 86%, and 79%, respectively. Fifteen of the 83 patients (18%) with positive margins developed local recurrences, compared to 5 of 55 patients (9%) with close or uncertain margins, and 3 of 60 patients (5%) with negative margins (p = 0.02). Patients with and without a major (named) nerve involved had crude failure rates of 18% (10 out of 55) and 9% (13 out of 143), respectively (p = 0.02). There was a trend toward better local control with increasing dose. This was significant in patients with positive margins, in whom crude control rates were 40 and 88% for doses of