Case Report
Laryngeal Giant Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Table 1
Summary of reported cases of GCT of the larynx.
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Wessely [4] | 51 | Male | Cricoid | RT | | Federova [7] | 35 | Male | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy + RT | NED 1 y | Wagemann [8] | 40 | Male | Cricothyroid | Laryngectomy + RT | NED 7 y | Perrino [9] | 32 | Male | Cricoid | Laryngofissure + RT | NED 0.25 y | Kaliteevskii and Korol'kova [10] | 52 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngectomy | | Pohl [11] | 50 | Male | Thyroid | RT | NED 2 y | Kohn [12] | 50 | Male | Epiglottis | NA | | Rudert [13] | 53 | Male | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy | NED 8 y | Hall-Jones [14] | 26 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngectomy | NED 1.5 y | Goto and Nakashima [15] | 47 | Male | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy | | Kotarba and Niezabitowski [16] | 60 | Male | Epiglottis | Partial laryngectomy | NED 0.5 y | Ribari et al. [17] | 35 | Male | Cricoid | Laryngectomy + RT | NED 6 y | Kubo et al. [18] | 40 | Male | Cricoid | Laryngofissure + 5-Fluorouracil + RT | | Tsybyme and Bogdanskaia [19] | 34 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngofissure + RT | | Borghese et al. [20] | 28 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngofissure | NED 1.25 y | Badet et al. [21] | 23 | Female | NA | NA | | Murrell and Lantz [22] | 42 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngectomy + neck dissection | | Martin et al. [23] | 23 | Male | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy | NED 5 y | Miyata et al. [24] | 60 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngectomy | | Werner et al. [25] | 35 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngectomy | NED 7.5 y | Hinni [26] | 31 | Male | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy | NED 3 y | Wieneke et al. [27] | 44 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngectomy | NED 0.6 y | Wieneke et al. [27] | 57 | Male | Cricoid | RT | NED 1.6 y | Wieneke et al. [27] | 37 | Male | Cricoid | Partial laryngectomy | NED 13.9 y | Wieneke et al. [27] | 40 | Male | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy | | Wieneke et al. [27] | 53 | Female | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy | NED 16.9 y | Wieneke et al. [27] | 62 | Female | Thyroid | Laryngectomy | NED 24.9 y | Wieneke et al. [27] | 26 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngectomy | NED 1.5 y | Wieneke et al. [27] | 37 | Male | Thyroid | RT + cyclophosphamide | NED 19.4 y | Wong and Seikaly [28] | 49 | Male | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy | NED 2.7 y | Nishimura et al. [29] | 31 | Male | Thyroid | Partial laryngectomy | NED 0.7 y | Coyas et al. [30] | 67 | Male | Vocal cord | Laryngofissure + RT | NED 1 y | Present case | 59 | Male | Thyroid | Laryngectomy | NED 2.5 y |
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NA: not available; NED: no evidence of disease; and RT: radiation therapy.
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