Metastases to and from the upper aerodigestive tract in the population of Rochester, Minnesota, 1935-1984

✍ Scribed by Dr. J. E. Bouquot; L. H. Weiland; L. T. Kurland

• Book ID: 102847662
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 655 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1043-3074
• DOI: 10.1002/hed.2880110304

✦ Synopsis

The present investigation is the first population-based study to provide incidence and clinicopathologic data for metastases to and from the upper aerodigestive tract (UAT). In a patient cohort with relatively minimal referral bias it was determined that cervical and distant metastases occurred in 21% and 2%, respectively, of UAT carcinomas by the time of diagnosis; incidence rates per 100,000 person-years for cervical and distant metastases from UAT carcinomas were 2.8 and 0.3, respectively; occult primary lesions represented 3.8% of all UAT carcinomas; 3.6% of all invasive UAT carcinomas were actually metastatic from another body site; and the clinicopathologic literature has overestimated the prevalence of metastases at diagnosis relative to UAT carcinomas. HEAD 81 NECK 11:212-218, 1989 'Dr. Bouquot was on sabbatical leave with the Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, during part of this investigation