Table 1.
Selected characteristics of 18 cases of tracheal chondrosarcoma.
| Year | First author | Sex | Age | Symptoms | Symptom duration (months) | Location | Grade (1–3) |
Extratracheal extension | Size (cm) | Calcification | Treatment | Number of recurrences | Follow-up (years) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Daniels | M | 73 | D, C, W | 7 | Lower | 2 | NR | 2.5 | NR | (1) ER‡ | 5 (local) | AWD, 3.0 |
| (2) ER | |||||||||||||
| 1973 | Fallahnejad | F | 48 | D, C, W | 16 | Upper | NR | Present | 4.0 | None | R | 0 | NED, 5.0 |
| 1978 | Weber | M | 71 | D, C, Ho | 4 | Middle | NR | Present | 3.0 | Present | R | 0 | NED, 5.0 |
| 1985 | Slasky | M | 58 | D | 24 | Lower | 2 | Present | 2.0 | Present | R | 0 | NED, 2.5 |
| 1986 | Arévalo | M | 74 | D, P | 0.25 | Upper | 1 | Present | 2.0 | Present | R | 0 | NED, 1.0 |
| 1988 | Matsuo |
M | 72 | D, He | 7 | Middle | 1 | Present | 5.0 | None | (1) IR‡ | 1 | NED, 0.5 |
| (2) LaR | |||||||||||||
| (3) R | |||||||||||||
| 1990 | Salminen | M | 57 | D, C | 3 | Lower | 3 | Present | 2.3 | None | IR | 5 (local & distant) | DOD, 14 |
| 1994 | Leach | M | 72 | D | 36 | Lower | 3 | Present | 6.5 | Present | R | NR | NR |
| 1998 | Farrell |
M | 87 | D | 12 | Middle | 2 | Present | 3.0 | NR | (1) ER∗,‡ | 2 (local) | AWD, 1.0 |
| (2) ER | |||||||||||||
| (3) Rad | |||||||||||||
| 1997 | Kiriyama | M | 54 | D, W | 1 | Lower | 1 | NR | 2.0 | Present | LaDeb/R§ | 0 | NED, 3.5 |
| 2003 | Maish | M | 78 | D | 3 | Lower | 1 | Present | NR | None | LaDeb/R§ | 0 | NED, 0.5 |
| 2008 | Umezu | M | 34 | D, He, W | 8 | Upper | 1 | Present | 2.5 | Present | R | 0 | NED, 6.3 |
| 2009† | Wagnetz | M | 34 | D, C, W | 18 | Upper | 2 | None | 2.0 | Present | ER/R§ | NR | NR |
| 2010 | Mendonça | M | 72 | D, W, O | 12 | Upper | 1 | Present | NR | Present | LaDeb/Rad§ | 0 | NED, 7.0 |
| 2010† | de Almeida | M | 35 | D | NR | Upper | 2 | None | NR | Present | R | NR | NR |
| 2016 | Kutzner | M | 61 | D | 2 | Lower | 1 | None | 2.2 | Present | ER/R§ | 0 | NED, 1.0 |
M, male; F, female; NR, not recorded; C, cough; D, dyspnea; W, wheeze; Ho, hoarse; P, pneumonia; He, hemoptysis; O, odynophagia; R, resection; ER, endoscopic resection; IR, incomplete resection; LaR, laser resection; LaDeb/R, laser debulking/resection; UNK, unknown; Rad, radiotherapy; NED, no evidence of disease; AWD, alive with disease; DOD, died of disease. ∗Refused resection. †Patient with Maffucci Syndrome. ‡Patient with recurrences treated in numerical order. §Patient symptomatically treated with laser debulking or with endoscopic resection prior to definitive treatment of resection or radiotherapy.