Tobacco Exposure and Complications in Conservative Laryngeal Surgery

Cancers

Francesca Romana Fiorini¹  Alberto Deganello²  Guglielmo Larotonda²  Giuditta Mannelli² 

[1] Academic Clinic of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Florence, Via Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Florence, Italy;

关键词: head and neck cancer;    postoperative complications;    smoking status;   

DOI  :  10.3390/cancers6031727

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Smoking is an important risk factor in the development of head and neck cancer. However, little is known about its effects on postoperative complications in head and neck cancer surgery. We performed a retrospective analysis on 535 consecutive laryngeal cancer patients submitted to open partial laryngectomy at the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department of Florence University to evaluate a possible correlation between smoking and surgical complications. Patients were grouped in non smokers and smokers and evaluated for airway, swallowing, local and fistula complications by multivariate analysis: 507 (95%) patients were smokers, 69% presented supraglottic, 30% glottic and 1% transglottic cancer. The most common operation was supraglottic horizontal laryngectomy in 58%, followed by supracricoid partial laryngectomy in 27% and frontolateral hemilaryngectomy in 15% of cases. The incidence of overall complications was 30%, airway complications representing the most frequent (14%), followed by swallowing (7%), local (6%) and fistula complications (3%). Smokers developed more local complications (p = 0.05, univariate, p = 0.04, multivariate analysis) and pharyngocutaneous fistula (p = 0.01, univariate, p = 0.03, multivariate analysis).

【 授权许可】

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