Results
Overall, 1497 patients who were diagnosed with a laryngeal malignancy after a diagnostic or curative surgery, were identified between January 2006 and January 2018. The mean age of the overall patients was 60,3 ± 10,35 (32-95), and 92.2% of the patients were male (M/F: 1380/117). Overall, 89.9% (1347/1497) of the pathology reports were classic (conventional) type SCC, and %2.7 (40/1497) were non-SCC laryngeal malignancies.
The remaining 110 (7.34%) patients who were diagnosed with vSCC were included to study. The average age at the time of diagnosis of this group was 61,6 ± 9,65 (30-84). While 92% of the patients were male, only 8% were female (M: F= 101:9). Median follow-up duration was 48 months (1-158)
All patients with a primary tumor stage of T3 and more with no previous radiotherapy history (for other malignancies than laryngeal carcinoma) underwent elective neck dissection according to the localization and lateralization of the tumor. No neck dissection was performed for patients whose preoperative diagnosis was verrucous carcinoma. For patients with a T1 and T2 tumor stage, elective neck dissection was performed only if clinical and radiological metastasis presence or occurrence was present.
Demographic information, tumor localizations, TNM stages and overall stages of the patients with vSCC is given in detail in Table 1and follow-up durations and survival information in Table 2