Conall W R Fitzgerald, Joel C Davies, John R de Almeida, Jason T Rich, Mario Orsini, Antoine Eskander, Eric Monteiro, Ximena Mimica, Tim Mclean, Jennifer R Cracchiolo, Ian Ganly, Amy Hessel, Samantha Tam, Dongmin Wei, Ryan Goepfert, Jie Su, Wei Xu, Mark Zafereo, David P Goldstein, Marc A Cohen
OBJECTIVES: Pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF) is a major morbidity of salvage total laryngectomy (TL). Understanding the factors predicting PCF is fundamental to managing laryngeal cancer. We aim to assess factors associated with PCF following salvage TL in a multicenter, international retrospective cohort study of academic centers in the US and Canada. RESULTS: In total, 550 patients post-salvage TL were identified (mean [SD; range] age, 64 [10.4; 32-90] years; 465 [85 %] male and 84 [15 %] female) between 2000 and 2014...
November 2022: Oral Oncology