TABLE 3 Treatment and Clinical Outcome of Eight Giant Cell Tumors of the Larynx

From: Giant Cell Tumor of the Larynx: A Clinicopathologic Series of Eight Cases and a Review of the Literature

No.

Initial Therapy

Additional Therapy

Tumor Recurrence

Patient status (follow-up in y)

1

Supraglottic laryngectomy

None

No

A, NED (0.6)

2

Biopsy

External beam radiation

No

A, NED (1.6)

3

Wide local resection

None

No

A, NED (13.9)

4

Wide local resection

None

Unknown

Lost to follow-up

5

Wide local resection

None

No

A, NED (16.9)

6

Total laryngectomy

None

No

D, NED (24.9)

7

Total laryngectomy

None

No

A, NED (1.5)

8

Biopsy only

Radiation and cytoxan

No

D, NED (19.4)

  1. A, NED, alive, no evidence of disease; D, NED, dead, no evidence of disease.