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  • Title: Surgical treatment of carcinoma of the hypopharynx and cervical oesophagus.
    Author: Lam KH, Wong J, Lim ST, Ong GB.
    Journal: Ann Acad Med Singap; 1980 Jul; 9(3):317-22. PubMed ID: 7212613.
    Abstract:
    From 1964 to 1979 a total of 1,702 patients with carcinoma of the oesophagus were admitted into the University Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. Among these the tumour was situated at the hypopharynx in 112 cases and at the cervical oesophagus in 36 cases. The treatment of choice for resectable tumours of these sites was pharyngo-laryngo-oesophagectomy (81 cases). Reconstruction with pharyngo-gastric anastomosis was preferred (76 cases). Other methods of reconstruction were indicated only when the stomach had been resected previously. Although the hospital mortality after pharyngo-laryngo-oesophagectomy was 31% this was the only means by which a long term survival could be achieved. Occasionally even when the trachea was infiltrated by tumour, salvage could be attempted by including the posterior wall of the trachea in the resection and repairing with an in-turned delto-pectoral flap. Although the actuarial survival of patients after pharyngo-laryngo-oesophagectomy was only 9%, all the patients who survived the operation were relieved of their distressing symptom of dysphagia.
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