Patterns of regional lymph node failure of locally advanced hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma after first-line treatment with surgery and/or intensity-modulated radiotherapy.

BMC Cancer · 2020 · PMC7137435 · PMID 32252691

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The postoperative radiation strongly associated with lower risk nodal failure (OR = 0.086, 95% CI: 0.009–0.814, P = 0.012), and pathologic N stage had a trend towards significance on univariate analysis (OR = 0.218, 95% CI: 0.042–1.142, P = 0.057).

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5 ), however, probably because of small sample size ( N = 6), borderline significant difference was observed at level VII (33.3% vs. 7.5%, P = 0.058, OR = 0.162, 95% CI: 0.021–0.128), and no significant difference at level III (Table 3 ).

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Previous retrospective studies [ 20 , 21 ] indicated that pyriform sinus apex or postcricoid invasion, or tumor diameter exceeding 3.5 cm showed a trend in favor of paratracheal lymph node involvement.

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