The effect of lymphocytic infiltration on clinical survival in cancer of the tongue

T Sarioğlu; T Yilmaz; A Sungur; B Gürsel

doi:10.1007/BF00171547

The effect of lymphocytic infiltration on clinical survival in cancer of the tongue

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 1994;251(6):366-9. doi: 10.1007/BF00171547.

Authors

T Sarioğlu¹, T Yilmaz, A Sungur, B Gürsel

Affiliation

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

PMID: 7848649
DOI: 10.1007/BF00171547

Abstract

Many factors have been claimed to influence the clinical prognosis of cancer of the tongue, one of them being the inflammatory response at the advancing tumor border. In a retrospective study of 60 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue, lymphocytic peritumoral inflammation was not found to be an objective prognostic marker.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / mortality*
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / pathology
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / surgery
Female
Humans
Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating / pathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Staging
Prognosis
Retrospective Studies
Survival Rate
Tongue Neoplasms / mortality*
Tongue Neoplasms / pathology
Tongue Neoplasms / surgery