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ArticleCase reports in otolaryngology2014

Carbon ion beam radiotherapy for sinonasal malignant tumors invading skull base.

Nobuo Ohta, Yusuke Suzuki, Azusa Hasegawa, Masaru Aoyagi, Seiji Kakehata

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Article in Case reports in otolaryngology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nobuo OhtaDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iida-nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Yusuke SuzukiDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iida-nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Azusa HasegawaResearch Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba 263-8555, Japan.
Masaru AoyagiDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iida-nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Seiji KakehataDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iida-nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan.
Yamagata University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective. To evaluate the treatment outcome and prognostic factors in patients with sinonasal malignant tumors invading skull base. Study Design and Setting. A retrospective clinical study at the Yamagata University School of Medicine. Subjects and Methods. Three patients with sinonasal malignant tumors invading skull base were presented in present study. All patients were treated with carbon ion beam radiotherapy. The prescribed dose to the center of the clinical target volume was 64.0 GyE/16 fractions over 4 weeks at 4.0 GyE/fraction per day. Results. All patients completed carbon ion beam radiotherapy without an interval. The mean observation period was 39.6 months (range: 11-54 months). There were no local or regional recurrences in all cases; however, one patient had a metastasis in distant organs. Regarding the complications, visual loss was observed in one eye of one patient whose optic nerve was entirely involved by the tumor and field of carbon ion beam radiotherapy. Radiation induced brain injury was observed in two patients; however, these patients do not complain about neurological abnormality and had no treatment for radiation induced brain necrosis. Conclusions. Carbon ion beam radiotherapy for sinonasal malignant tumors invading the skull base showed therapeutic effectiveness.

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