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Seventy patients with squamous cell cancer of the oral cavity or oropharynx, because of advanced disease, or excision of residual or recurrent disease after radiotherapy required pedicle flap reconstruction. All were treated before 1 January 1976. Analysis of the outcome of these patients, some of whom were elderly, and most heavy smokers, showed that 17 (24.3%) survived 10 years or more. Age, metastatic neck nodes, and prior failure of radiation therapy to control the cancer did not seem to influence the prognosis significantly. It is concluded that, if patients are fit, and a reasonable quality of life can be assured with either a pedicle or vascularized free flap reconstruction, major resection is justified when technically feasible.
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
June 2016,
Archives of craniofacial surgery,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
November 2017,
Medicine,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
July 1998,
Revue de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
September 2021,
Translational lung cancer research,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
February 2010,
The Laryngoscope,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
September 2020,
Japanese journal of clinical oncology,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
May 2003,
The Laryngoscope,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
September 1969,
Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
July 2016,
The Laryngoscope,
W B Fleming, and
T M Long
June 1988,
The Bulletin of Tokyo Medical and Dental University,
