상악동암의 진단과 치료

Diagnosis and treatment of carcinoma of the maxillary sinus

It is so difficult to treat carcinoma of the maxillary sinus because of difficulty in early diagnosis, more advanced lesion at the first examination, complexity of the surrounding anatomic structures, and technical problems of the extensive radical resection. Although treatment of carcinoma of the maxillary sinus has been performed commonly by the conventional surgical or radiation therapy or combined therapy of both, multidisciplinary therapy has been introduced with improvement of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Triple therapy, to has being widely performed in Japan nowadays, is composed of proper preoperative and postoperative radiation therapy, regional intraarterial chemotherapy and surgery. And significant increasement of 5-year survival rate has been reported. So we think that this method can be recommended to treatment of carcinoma of the maxillary sinus.