Pathology of advanced maxillary cancer following combined radiotherapy and surgical therapy
Stenzl, A.; Kärcher, H.
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 134(18): 413-416
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5341 PMID: 6506733 Document Number: 221444
Case report of a 44 year old patient with an invasive partially keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma which broke into the middle base of the skull and penetrated into the brain. By combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy a surgical treatment of the originally extensive primary tumor became possible. Histologically no cancer tissue was found in the resected parts. 2 1/2 years later the patient died from pneumonia. The autopsy revealed a "restitutio ad integrum" of the skull and brain which according to several computertomographies were invaded by the tumor.