SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE HYPOPHARYNGEAL AND CERVICAL ESOPHAGEAL CANCER

Between December 1979 and December 1992, 15 patients with hypopharyngeal and cervical esophageal cancer were treated surgically. Total pharyngolaryngectomy and partial cervical esophagectomy were performed and the defects were reconstructed with cervical skin flaps in 2 cases. The free jejunal segments were used in 6 cases following total pharyngolaryngectomy and cervical esophagectomy, cervical esophagectomy (larynx preserved) was repaired with free jejunal graft in 1 case. The pharyngogastric anastomosis following total pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy were performed in 4 cases, one of them, used pectoralis major myocutaneous flap for resection of soft tissue and skin of the neck. The pectoralis major myocutaneous flap and forearm free flap in 1 case respectively were used to reconstruct the deficits of total laryngectomy and partial pharyngectomy, and partial pharyngolaryngectomy. In our series, 1, 3, 5 years survival rates were 73.3% (11 / 15), 50% (6 / 12) and 55.6% (5 / 9), respectively. The advantage