TABLE 1.
Adult Head and Neck ARMS Patient Characteristics
| Case No. | Age/Sex | Location | Size (cm) |
Metastases at Diagnosis | Treatment | Follow-up (mths) |
References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76/F | Ethmoid sinus | 3 | Internal auditory canal | ChemoRT | 14 (DOD) |
Current study |
| 2 | 61/M | Nasopharynx | NA | Lymph nodes, bone, lung | ChemoRT | 10* (AWD) |
Current study |
| 3 | 61/F | Palate | 7.2 | Lymph node | ChemoRT | 13 (NED) |
Current study |
| 4 | 64/F | Maxillary sinus | 5 | None | ChemoRT | 12 (AWD) |
Current study |
| 5 | 68/F | Cervical paravertebra | 10 | Widespread: bone marrow, thoracic wall, stomach, pancreas | Chemo | 11 days (DOD) |
Stindl R, et al.8 |
| 6 | 57/F | Ethmoid sinus | NA | NA | NA | NA | Manucha V, et al.7 |
| 7 | 49/M | Nasal sinus | NA | None | Resection, chemo | 60 (AWD) |
Das KM, et al.6 |
ChemoRT, chemotherapy and radiation therapy; NA, not available; DOD, died of disease; AWD, alive with disease; NED, no evidence of disease
*
Patient lost to further follow-up after 10 months.