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19.2.3 Imaging ofHypoxia
Tissue hypoxia may decrease sensitivity to chemoradiation. Hypoxic cells are resilient to the toxic properties of chemotherapy and radiother­apy and require higher radiation dose than for the non-hypoxic counterpart to achieve the same therapeutic effect. Thus, concerned clinicians have increasing awareness to diagnose hypoxic HNSCC beforehand with the hope to modify therapeutic approaches to avoid this limitation of chemoradiation [39].
19.2.4 Evaluation ofTumor Cell
Proliferation
Cellular multiplication during treatment is unfavorable for desired post-radiotherapy result in HNSCC. A new PET element is advanced (3-deoxy-3-18F-FLT-PET) whose signal intensity is more specic for aggressively mul­tiplying tumor cells in comparison to 18F-FDG­PET [40].
19.2.7 Future ofMolecular Imaging inHNSCC
Molecular imaging is rening the tumor detec­tion, assessment, plus treatment planning. This highly sophisticated technique also helps to develop:
1. Screening tools—more accurate but noninva-
sive method to evaluate people at risk.
2. Efcacy of newer drugs by quick understand-
ing of the treatment response.
3. Personalized medicine, where medical treat-
ment depends on patient-specic exclusive genetic prole.
4. In the coming years, molecular imaging is
likely to be frequently used in:
(a) Hybrid imaging—more than one imaging
technique will be combined to yield sin­gle image.
(b) Optical imaging [42].

19.2.8 Others

19.2.5 Prevention ofNeoangiogenesis
18F-Galacto-RGD-PET images a receptor asso­ciated with tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. This is utilized for the evaluation of tumor response to targeted therapies. The intensity of 18F-RGD peptide accumulation relates to the existence of stimulated endothelial cells and microvessel attenuation [39].

19.2.6 PET-MR

PET-MR fusion image in HNSCC is promising for further accuracy in staging. Study shows that the precision for tumor node metastasis staging is almost similar in PET/CT and MRI (74.6% and 73%, respectively). MRI along with PET improves the correctness up to 92% [41]. PET-MR fusion scan is likely to be used widely for assessing HNSCC in the near future.
19.2.8.1 SPECT
Primary HNSCC and cervical lymph nodal metastasis can be imaged with 201 Tl SPECT. This could furnish evidence beyond structural changes and may be a complementary technique for the evaluation of HNSCC [43].
19.2.8.2 Elastography
A recent development in ultrasound technique may be used to evaluate primary lesion and also to get information about lymph node metastases in HNSCC patients.
19.2.8.3 Fluoroscopy
There are situations where simultaneous use of con­trast swallowing and uoroscopy is required. Possibility of aspiration or entry of dye through s­tula in airway is dynamically observed by video u­oroscopy. Consistency of a surgical anastomosis or a pharyngo-cutaneous stula tract could be assessed too [44]. These assessments are usually done together with speech therapists to facilitate manage­ment planning for better functional outcomes.
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19.2.8.4 Narrowband Imaging
The endoscopy with narrowband imaging (NBI) facility can create sharp image contrast in recog­nizing small mucosal lesions. Intraepithelial microvasculature becomes highlighted which helps to understand the lesion’s pathology. This unique technique has real efciency in the early identication of hypopharyngeal, oropharyngeal, oral cavity, laryngeal, and nasopharyngeal can­cers and metastatic lymph nodes with unknown primary. NBI endoscopy is a useful instrument in detecting cancers at initial stage and offers chance for minimally invasive surgery [45, 46].

19.2.9 Biochemical Investigations

Quantitative changes have been shown to occur in a variety of substances in serum during the devel­opment of HNSCC.These substances are collec­tively called tumor biomarkers. The potential role of tumor biomarkers includes early detection, monitoring tumor volume whether decreasing or increasing, detecting recurrence and/or metastasis, and anticipating prognosis. Changes from the ini­tial serum level of biomarkers reect the existence/ nonexistence of tumor and also favorable/unfavor­able prognosis following therapy. The tumor bio­markers can be categorized as oncofetal proteins, hormones, enzymes, proteins, etc. Although many of these are considered as nonspecic, some have been shown to be of value in the detection and management of various HNSCCs.
Though overall prognosis improved a little with modern therapies, further improvement of disease-free survival can be achieved by early detection and relapse prevention. Research about molecular changes and categorization during HNSCC development and identifying biomark­ers related to different HNSCC are likely to play a crucial role in the overall management of these diseases in the coming decades [47].
Many biomarkers possess inspiring potential but require further clinical validation. The fol­lowing markers have raised the interest of researchers: chemokine receptors, human papil­lomavirus, microsatellite instability, microRNA, p53, etc.

19.2.10 Imaging Biomarkers

In addition to biochemical biomarkers, imaging biomarkers also have a signicant role in detect­ing HNSCC at initial stage. These are noninva­sive newer tools for monitoring therapeutic response and follow-up of HNSCC patients. PET/CT is superior to MRI or CT individually in respect to sensitivity and specicity. Newly hosted regional PET/Gd (gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted)-MRI jointly with whole-body PET-MRI seems to be fairly capable in noticing early lesions [47].
19.3 Surgical Management ofHNSCC
Surgical treatment of HNSCC has got a momen­tum as a result of tremendous advancements in anesthesia, safe blood transfusion technique, invention of efcient antibiotics, and newer recon­structive ideas and skill. The philosophy of radical resection is replaced by organ preservation exper­tise to restore function without compromising the ultimate goal of disease-free survival. Changing policy in the surgical management of neck metas­tasis, depending upon the site and type of HNSCC, reects in the treatment planning.

19.3.1 Neck Dissection

Efcient surgical maneuver to address the neck metastasis in HNSCC is a crucial factor in the overall management of HNSCC. Metastasis in the neck is the topmost individual prognostic fac­tor and reduces survival by 50%, but the extra­capsular spread and presence of contralateral node metastasis reduce the prognosis by another 50%. Neck dissection not only clears the metastatic neck disease but also helps in realistic staging of the disease. The basic concept of neck dissection is to remove all the lymphatic and non­lymphatic structures in between the investing layer and deeper layer of the deep fascia of the neck. These may include IJV, SCM, and SAN but never ever carotid arteries and vagus nerve. Other
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structures to be preserved are actually beneath the deeper layer, e.g., brachial plexus and phrenic nerve. Prime targets of neck dissection are:
1. To control the manifested neck metastasis in head and neck malignancy
2. To reduce locoregional spread of head-neck malignancy and improve survival in clinically and radiologically negative neck
3. As salvage surgical procedure in recurrent malignant disease of the neck (post-surgery/ post-RT)
In 1880, Emil Theodor Kocher, a Swiss researcher and physician (1909 Nobel laureate), proposed the removal of cervical nodal metasta­sis for HNSCC. In 1888, a Polish surgeon Jawdynski described en bloc resection of the neck along with carotid, IJV, and SCM.This arti­cle was published in polish language. In 1906, George W.Crile (Ohio, USA) dened the radical neck dissection (RND). His surgical procedure included excision of all the lymph nodes along with SAN, IJV, and SCM on one side of the neck. In 1950s, Hays Martin who is known as the father of modern head and neck surgery started using RND routinely to control neck metastasis.
In 1960s, Oscar Suarez, E.Bocca, and Pignataro pronounced functional neck dissection (FND) with the idea of few structural conservation but nearly equal efcacy where SAN, IJV, and SCM are preserved according to the situational demand. Oncologic success of the FND was denitively reported by Bocca in the mid- 1970s. This opera­tion included meticulous dissection of cervical lymph nodes in different compartments of the neck and conservation of IJV, SAN, and SCM, considering functional and cosmetic aspects [48,
49]. Minimum adverse post-surgery consequences
during the management of clinically negative neck and opportunity to do bilateral neck dissections in the same session avoiding the hazard of cerebral and facial edema likely to develop after removing both sided IJVs are the main advantages [50]. FND is also known as modied radical neck dis­section (MRND).
From the conceptual point of view, RND com­prises all lymph node levels (I–V) together with
the IJV, SAN, and SCM. MRND embraces the similar lymph node levels like RND but saves IJV, SAN, and SCM (any one/two or all the three). The selective neck dissection (SND) addresses some of the lymph node groups included in MRND leaving others. Therapeutic neck dissection is done in preoperative or preop­eratively positive (high clinical suspicion or fro­zen section proven) neck. Elective neck dissection (END) is done on the basis of recognized threat for occult metastases.
Lindberg and colleagues published an article in 1972 based on the review of the records of HNSCC patients illustrating that cervical lymph node metastases from any subsite of the head neck region follow a predictable pattern [51]. In 1990, Shah and his team at MSKCC, NewYork, showed the histological patterns of nodal metas­tases in HNSCC patients subjected to elective and therapeutic neck dissections [52, 53]. These two works acted as rotating points. Depending on this idea about the order of metastasis, elective dissection of selected levels of lymph nodes (elective SND) has developed as a replacement for elective MRND.
In oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC), level IIb lymph node metastasis is rarely found and nodal recurrence after supra­omohyoid neck dissection (SOHND) is infre­quent [54]. Therefore, this region may be preserved in elective SOHND in patients of oral cavity carcinoma.
Super-selective neck dissections conserving level IIb are safe oncosurgical procedures if done prophylactically in carefully chosen patients, e.g., elective treatment of the cN0 neck and salvage treatment of persistent lymph node disease after chemoradiation. It has been observed that shoul­der morbidity is higher in the rst few weeks in patients undergoing IIb-sparing neck dissections, but in the course of time recovery is satisfactory [55]. The following classication covers all types of neck dissection currently in practice:
1. Comprehensive neck dissections: (a) Radical neck dissection (b) Modied radical neck dissection with 03
classical types
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(c) Extended radical neck dissection
2. Selective neck dissections: (a) Classical selective neck dissection:
All four classical types
(b) Extended selective neck dissection,
SND plus any nonlymphatic structure is excised like IJV, SCM, or SAN
(c) Super-selective neck dissection:
SND-sparing L-IIb (in laryngeal carcinoma) SOHND-sparing L-Ia (in small poste­rior lesions of the oral cavity)
The idea of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is put forward as a new precise method for histopathological staging of the negative neck parallel to elective SND [56]. Facial lymph nodes’ frozen-section biopsy during surgery for parotid malignancy is also described to determine the necessity of neck dissection [56]. SLNB using radiotracer to isolate the rst echelon nodes is in practice for management of breast cancer and melanoma. There is argument whether SLNB is good for staging HNSCC with N0 neck [57]. Endoscopic neck dissection has been described in porcine and humans with papillary thyroid cancer [58, 59]. These super-selective nominally invasive methods may take over an important part in the forthcoming staging system of HNSCC [60].
Total laryngectomy with neck dissection has become the prime choice (Figs.19.2 and 19.3).
But the operation’s consequences are loss of voice along with loss of nasal function, swallow­ing complications, altered lung function, trache­ostomy hazards, and also psychological impacts during the remaining part of life.
Subsequently, two methods for surgical res­toration of voice had been designed: (1) neo­glottic reconstruction and (2) shunts. Various systems have been tried for neoglottic recon­struction to develop a tracheohyoidopexy pro-
Fig. 19.2 Laryngeal carcinoma (FOL picture)
19.4 Surgery forLaryngeal Carcinoma
Undesirable death rate of surgery for laryngeal carcinoma rendered it as a disappointing situa­tion in the early part of the last century. Most of the patients used to refuse major surgical proce­dure because of limited hope for survival and lit­tle chance of cure. So, both the clinicians and patients got inclined towards radiotherapy as the rst choice. But quickly the limitations of primi­tive radiotherapy were understood. Rapid devel­opment of surgical skill, availability of antibiotics and safer anesthetic agents plus efcient periop­erative care directed the consensus again towards radical surgery as the preferred choice for laryn­geal cancer usually diagnosed in advance stage.
Fig. 19.3 CT scan showing cartilage invasion
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cedure, but almost all are abandoned because of multiple complications. Guttman fashioned a surgical tracheoesophageal stula in 1932 [61]. A great conceptual upgrading surfaced in 1970s through Eric Blom and Mark Singer. Tracheoesophageal puncture and use of pros­thesis have dramatically changed the rehabili­tation of the patients following laryngectomy. Subsequently in Europe, indwelling voice prosthesis was developed [62, 63]. The Provox voice prosthesis, developed in the Netherlands (1988), is currently one of the widely used devices [64, 65]. The Provox Vega is the latest version which can be used for both primary and secondary procedures. Other available solu­tions for voice rehabilitation are esophageal speech and electro-larynx.
Pressman etal. noticed the compartmental­ized structure of the larynx and its implication for feasibility of subtotal laryngectomies [66]. Subsequently, approaches for various partial laryngectomies came into practice. Supraglottic laryngectomy was reported in 1940s and supra­cricoid laryngectomy in the late 1950s [67,
68]. The objective of these procedures was to
ensure oncologic disease clearance along with restoration of the functions (speech and swal­lowing) and to avoid permanent tracheostome. Transoral laryngeal surgery (TOLS) by carbon dioxide laser started in the 1970s with reported cure rates as good as open surgery and radio­therapy [69, 70]. Transoral endoscopic laser resection became popular for smaller lesions (T1 and T2) and also for some selected larger tumors. Now the robot-assisted supraglottic laryngectomy has been validated (TORS), which is rationalizing the transoral resection of laryngeal cancer [71].
The robotic system makes a provision for a very clear and accurate operation eld, ensuring wonderful hemostasis, superb visualization with identication of submucosal soft tissue and skel­etal landmarks of the larynx, and three­dimensional resection of cancer [72]. The robotic system also provides tremendous visualization as well as controlled microdissection at the vocal cord level [73].

19.5 Oral Cavity Cancer (OCSCC)

OCSCC is still a major component of HNSCC causing suffering as well as death among patients, especially in Southeast and East Asia. Although the incidence has been declining over the last few decades, outcomes remain as before with little improvement in the overall survival. Although surgical resection is considered as the primary therapeutic modality, many sectors of dispute and disagreement are persisting about investigations, overall surgical management, and also concern­ing adjuvant therapy.
Subsites of oral cavity proper are buccal mucosa, hard palate, lower alveolus, upper alveo­lus, oor of mouth, and oral tongue. Retromolar trigone SCCs are classied as buccal mucosa tumors although they have special features of early posterior spread and mandible involvement (Figs.19.4 and 19.5).
Subsite of the oral cavity involved and stage of the tumor are key issues inuencing the selection of therapeutic modality for OCSCC.The perfor­mance status of individuals is also a major con­sideration because primary therapeutic approach is often drastic with many untoward effects. Oral cavity cancer cases are conventionally treated by surgery, chemoradiation, or combinations of these modalities. The NCCN guideline generally
Fig. 19.4 Tongue carcinoma
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Fig. 19.5 Buccal carcinoma of the retromolar area
endorses surgery for early lesions and surgery or concurrent chemoradiotherapy for those with advanced lesions [74]. But the decision is abso­lutely individualized and multifactorial. The combined treatment can be offered concurrently or sequentially. Surgery is typically the starting modality in sequential therapy. Denitive high­dose radiation may induce osteoradionecrosis [75, 76]. The target of operation is resection of the entire primary tumor maintaining safe mar­gins around and comprehensive/selective removal of cervical lymph nodes and also perfect staging of the disease.
Operating approaches for oral cavity resection are decided by the site, surface extension, and deep invasion. To achieve three-dimensional margin clearance is the crucial issue in choosing surgical approach. There are a wide range of approaches in practice, e.g., transoral for smaller lesion up to transmandibular approaches (man­dibulotomy/segmental mandibulectomy) along with free ap reconstruction. The standard treat­ment for this type of cancer is radical excision and preservation of function and aesthetics as much as possible. Surgery can be performed with electrocautery or laser to minimize bleeding and to get a clear operating area (Figs.19.6 and 19.7).
Different prognostic factors are identied like primary subsite, levels of lymph nodes involved, tumor thickness, and surgical margins. Status of the excision margin is one of the critical vari-
Fig. 19.6 Buccal carcinoma with adjacent leukoplakia
Fig. 19.7 Skin carcinoma involving buccal mucosa
ables related to survival [77, 78]. Macroscopic tridimensional margins from 15 mm onwards should be obtained for a microscopic margin >5 mm taking into account that up to 70% shrinkage may occur in pathology specimen [79]. Somewhat poor survival is seen in cases where instant repeat resection is done to ensure negative margins after excising through positive margins in comparison to resection done con­rming negative margin on the rst attempt (31% vs. 49%, respectively) [80].
Narrowband imaging p53 chromosomal anal­ysis mutation status of the excision margins has revealed potentiality to identify tumors with his-
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tologically negative margins but biologically positive margins [81, 82]. NBI shows great potential to improve detection rates of oral pre­malignant conditions, identify oral and oropha­ryngeal squamous cell carcinoma, and dene surgical margins and thus reduce the risk of recurrence for OCSCC and OPSCC. However, lot of controversies still exist about the utility of molecular analysis of the resection margin, and this is yet to be used routinely in medical prac­tice. Time and nancial involvement are other factors limiting its use.
Evolution of oncosurgery has exerted decisive inuence to perform less invasive surgical proce­dures. CO2 laser demonstrates that this is an acceptable surgical method for the management of small lesions of the oral cavity [83]. Transoral robotic surgery (TORS), a minimal invasive sur­gery, has been practiced in many centers to treat early OCSCC with minimum or no blood loss and favorable outcome.
19.6 Oropharyngeal Cancer
(OPSCC)
With the advent of laser and robotic instruments, the surgery for OPSCC has undergone notewor­thy renement. Until the end of the twentieth century, open surgery was the primary choice. Because of severe morbidities associated with these approaches leading to functional incapacity of the patients, these were largely abandoned. Formerly, most OPSCC cases were related to consumption of tobacco and alcohol and affected older people. Nowadays, most patients diagnosed with a tonsillar or base-of-tongue disease are usually HPV-positive cases. These patients are somewhat younger, and their long-term progno­sis is relatively favorable [84, 85]. These facts have altered the clinical scenario and imposed a plea to design minimally invasive techniques to reduce functional morbidity and also treatment­related toxicity induced by nonsurgical therapy, i.e., chemoradiation.
The relentless advances in minimally invasive surgical procedures, particularly the transoral laser microsurgery (TOLS) and transoral robotic
surgery (TORS), have redesigned the surgical landscape. These procedures assure excellent functional outcome, and surgery appears to be re­establishing its position as the primary therapeu­tic option for these cancers (Fig.19.8).
Taking into account the complex structural arrangement and functional signicance of the oropharynx, several open-access surgical options are available. Mandibulotomy, mandibulectomy, and/or pharyngotomy along with reconstructions by different aps are suitable to treat advanced­stage cancers and for salvage operation after radiotherapy/chemoradiation failure. But because of the signicant morbidity induced by surgery including prolonged hospital stay, nasogastric/ gastrostomy feeding tube, necessity for tracheos­tomy, and also cosmetic deformity, there is a mounting preference for transoral minimally invasive procedures.
The benets of transoral techniques are slight­est damage to the normal tissues, better safeguard for the vital neurovascular structures, as well as quick recovery [86]. Initially although used for smaller lesions limited within the oropharynx, presently less invasive procedures are proved as feasible, useful, and fruitful techniques in selected cases of advanced OPSCC [87, 88]. Both TOLS and TORS techniques have exhibited appreciable local control of cancer and disease-
Fig. 19.8 Left tonsillar carcinoma
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free survival for primary OPSCC while minimiz­ing functional and aesthetic shortcomings [89,
90]. TOLS and TORS are also efcient for sal-
vage surgical procedure in cases following RT/ CRT failures [91, 92].
TORS provides clearer and wider visualiza­tion of the operating ground and better 3D idea of tissue plane than TOLS, allowing safer access to the cancer. Another benet of TORS is miniatur­ized multiarticulate equipment, which mimics ordinary surgical instruments but offers wider range arm rotation, with tremor ltration. It also allows to reach “blind corners” of the pharynx and larynx by using a 30° telescope [72]. Complications of TORS are also not ignorable. Hemorrhage represents 23% of complication related to TORS.Even revision surgical proce­dure may be required for hemostasis [93]. Cost is also a major constraint. While comparing the cost with that of conventional surgery, it appears excessive. But actually, it should be compared with nonsurgical options like radiation or chemo­radiation or with transcervical/transmandibular operations. Reducing hospital stay itself could be enough to balance the cost. Superiority due to less invasive method, faster recovery, and func­tional consequences rationalize the expenditure.
TORS, as surgical maneuver, allows assess­ment of the primary lesion for pathological stag­ing. Concomitant neck dissections permit the perfect staging based on the histopathological examination. TORS may be the decisive treat­ment in selected T1–T2 cases of OPSCC and erases the necessity of adjuvant treatments [94].

19.7 Hypopharyngeal Cancer

In smaller hypopharyngeal carcinomas, surgical resection keeping adequate safe margin and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) were the options depending on the expertise and experi­ence of the treating physicians. For advanced hypopharyngeal carcinomas, radical resection plus reconstruction of the surgical defect fol­lowed by postoperative adjuvant irradiation was the standard form of management in the 1970s–1990s [95, 96].
In the present era, standard protocol is multi­modal treatment, using surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy with curative intent. Most studies dealing with hypopharyngeal cancer compare var­ious chemo- and radiotherapy regimens, but do not compare with a surgical protocol [97]. For patients categorized as unt for curative treatment, pallia­tion is a choice. Because of signicant submucosal spread, hypopharyngeal carcinoma is generally diagnosed in advanced stage (III and IV), com­monly with cervical and/or distant metastases, and therefore bears worse prognosis [98].
Surgical treatment of hypopharyngeal cancers is determined by the lesion’s subsite involvement and extension and often requires reconstruction. Postsurgical reconstructive policies for hypo­pharynx are usually exible and vary according to whether the larynx is to be preserved or not. If the whole larynx is excised, separate channels for respiration and swallowing are to be created for maintaining the chief purposes of this organ. In 2003, Disa et al. suggested various types of repairs depending on the surgical defect in the pharyngo-esophageal portion after total laryn­gectomy [99]. The defect including the lateral wall of the pyriform fossa can be repaired straightway if it is small. In other cases, recon­struction is required. These procedures may involve a pedicled myocutaneous ap or free ap like radial forearm (RFFF) anterolateral thigh ap (ALT) [100, 101]. If the patient has been exposed to radiation/chemoradiation prior to sur­gery, the risk of pharyngo-cutaneous stula or a stricture formation is much higher.
Recent upsurge in robotics technology is pro­viding scope for more delicate surgical procedures to be performed utilizing minimal invasive route. It has many advantages over conventional surgical approaches, including rapid recovery, lower inci­dence of postoperative infection, decreased inten­sity of pain, better postoperative functional restoration, and cosmetic superiority [102]. Moore etal. stated that almost all patients regain normal swallowing at different stages of follow-up within 2 years [103]. Boudreaux et al. found effective swallowing in 79% at the end of 3months, while Weinstein etal. reported a successful swallowing in 97.6% at 12-month follow- up [88, 104].
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19.8 Nasopharynx Carcinoma (NPC)

The incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is highest in Southern China. Southeast Asia and North Africa have a lot of cases, but it is rare in other parts of the globe. There has been a signi­cant conceptual change regarding etiology and pathogenesis of NPC in the recent past. Hypothesis has been put forward that NPC is ini­tiated by an interplay between essential basic fac­tors (persistent Epstein-Barr virus) and cofactors (bacterial fatty acid and catalytic ingredients of plant origin habitually consumed). Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is triggered by this approach, which initiates a series of events leading to the malig­nant transformation [105].
To develop clear knowledge about the bio­logical behavior of NPC, some molecular vari­ables have been evaluated to testify the hypothesis that p53 dysfunction in NPC is linked with EBV.The existence of EBV seems to be the predictor for higher survival, but the mechanism is yet to be claried [106]. In con­trast to other HNSCCs, NPC was previously considered as “unresectable” due to difcult and narrow surgical access, high incidence of early extension beyond the nasopharyngeal cavity, and also cervical metastasis at presentation. External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) was the prime option for treating such cases. The USA’s NCCN guidelines endorse intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) as the primary curative treatment for freshly detected NPC, but radio­therapy-induced hazards are hardly acceptable [107, 108].
Various surgical approaches to nasopharynx have been designed since the starting of skull base surgery. Multiple approaches are in practice for tumours of different size and subsite involved within the nasopharyngeal space, like Infratemporal fossa, Transpalatal, Mandibular swing, Maxillary swing approaches and also Facial translocation combined with neurosurgical craniotomy approach for tumours with skull base extension [109].
With the availability of CT scan and other imaging, an increasing number of patients are
screened and diagnosed in early stage [110, 111]. This creates an opportunity to radically resect out the lesions limited in the nasopharyngeal cavity surgically. Moreover, emergence of nasoendo­scopic systems in the modern era, the endoscopic endonasal approach (EEA), provides scope for surgeons to excise deeply situated cancers, even those once labeled as inoperable [112]. Still there are some limitations and obstacles remaining during performing the radical excision of NPC due to troubles faced during instrumentation via a narrow nasal cavity. Another shortcoming is to perform en bloc resection. To overcome these problems and for recurrent NPC, a technical sys­tem has been established and employed success­fully for using endoscopic nasopharyngectomy (ENPG) plus reconstruction by pedicle muco­periosteal ap from nasal septum and oor [113,
114]. ENPG could overcome the previous limita-
tions and achieve satisfactory overall survival, minimizing posttreatment complications inlocally recurrent NPC [115].
19.9 Nose andParanasal Sinuses
Paranasal sinus cancers are a group of heteroge­neous malignancies, which originate in proximity to vital structures. Close relation with orbit, cra­nial nerves, carotid arteries, and intracranial struc­tures including brain makes surgical resection highly critical with risk of serious morbidity. Relatively low incidence and heterogeneity ren­der randomized controlled trials regarding man­agement of these cancers difcult. Till the transition between the twentieth and the twenty­rst centuries, the operative procedures for para­nasal sinus cancers were mainly different types of maxillectomy, nasal cavity exenteration, exenter­ation of ethmoid cells, and exploration and curet­tage of sphenoid sinuses with an average 5-year survival rate of 28% [116]. In 1963, Ketcham etal. reported the craniofacial resection (CFR) for paranasal sinus cancers [117]. In the 1980s and 1990s, the craniofacial approach became the gold standard for sinus malignancies. Overall 5-year survival rate reported was around 51% except for olfactory neuroblastoma [118] (Fig.19.9).
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Endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEA) to sino-nasal malignancies were the rst that came into practice at that time. Increase in skill over endoscopic handling; availability of sophisti­cated investigative tools, e.g., intraoperative imaging systems; understanding of detailed com­plex anatomy of the paranasal sinuses and their relations with the adjacent vital structures; and expertise in endoscopic resection are growing rapidly [119] (Fig.19.10).
At the beginning, early-stage malignancies were handled endoscopically and combined with craniotomy for more advanced cancers. Indications for EEA expanded as experience with endoscopic cancer surgery and cerebrospinal
Fig. 19.9 Orbital bulging in sino-nasal carcinoma
uid (CSF) leak repair increased. The limit has now extended up to resecting cancers invading intracranial structures. The idea of the EEA derives from the observation that these sinus can­cers are frequently polypoidal and have a local­ized attachment and the main tumor bulk lls up the hollow sinus or nasal cavity at its starting. The endoscopic surgery removes tumor by piece­meal with the target to reach, identify, and excise the tumor pedicle and ensure a safe margin facili­tated by minimizing bleeding, better illumina­tion, and improved visualization of the tumor origin [120]. The application of da Vinci robotic system in the paranasal sinuses has been less suc­cessful. Morbidities associated with these approaches are not negligible [121].

19.10 Salivary Gland Malignancy

19.10.1 Parotid Tumors

Salivary gland malignancies are infrequent, and the understanding of this disease is mostly based on reported clinical series rather than randomized evidence. Salivary gland tumors manifest a diverse range of histological and clinical behav­iors. Parotid tumors are usually found in the supercial lobe. This lobe is well imagined by high-frequency ultrasonogram (US) [122]. In addition, ultrasonography is helpful for guided ne needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). FNAC under US guidance has a high rank in investiga­tive accuracy and safety [123]. The trunk of the
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Fig. 19.10 (a–c) CT scans of sino-nasal carcinoma: (a) ocular extension, (b) palatal extension, and (c) intracranial extension
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