Craniofacial resection for malignant tumours involving the anterior skull base

Ethmoid malignant tumours are rare, but nearly all at least approach or involve the lamina cribrosa. An anterior craniofacial resection is almost always mandatory for a radical resection. While almost everything has been written about technical details, few studies reported meaningful analysis about...

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Published in:European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology 2006-07, Vol.263 (7), p.647-652
Main Authors: Cantù, Giulio, Riccio, Stefano, Bimbi, Gabriella, Squadrelli, Massimo, Colombo, Sarah, Compan, Alvaro, Rossi, Marco, Pompilio, Madia, Solero, Carlo L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adenocarcinoma - classification
Adenocarcinoma - surgery
Carcinoma - classification
Carcinoma - surgery
Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic - classification
Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic - surgery
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - classification
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - surgery
Cranial Fossa, Anterior - surgery
Ethmoid Sinus
Humans
Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms - classification
Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms - surgery
Prognosis
Skull Base - surgery
Skull Base Neoplasms - classification
Skull Base Neoplasms - surgery
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:Ethmoid malignant tumours are rare, but nearly all at least approach or involve the lamina cribrosa. An anterior craniofacial resection is almost always mandatory for a radical resection. While almost everything has been written about technical details, few studies reported meaningful analysis about prognostic factors and long-term results, for a series of reasons: the infrequency of these tumours, the variety of histologies, small patients cohorts presented by each author, a medley of untreated and pre-treated patients, the lack of a universally accepted classification. We perform a review of the literature in the light of our experience of 330 anterior craniofacial resections for ethmoid malignant tumours. We present our classification of ethmoid malignant tumours (called INT, Istituto Nazionale Tumori). It turned out to be more prognostic than AJCC-UICC classification.
ISSN:0937-4477
1434-4726
DOI:10.1007/s00405-006-0032-z