Table 1: Recurrence rates of head and neck desmoid tumors after complete and incomplete excisions.
Study | Mean Followup (years) | Grossly complete resection (# pts) | Recurrence rate after complete resection (%) |
Grossly incomplete resection (# pts) | Recurrence rate after incomplete resection (%) |
P-value* |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alherabi, et al. (2015) [27] | 1.3 | 0 | n/a | 1 | 100% | n/a |
Cohen, et al. (2008) [28] | 2 | 1 | 0% | 0 | n/a | n/a |
Conley, et al. (1966) [22] | 9 | 15 | 40% | 21 | 52% | p = 0.47 |
de Vloo, et al. (2015) [3] | 2.3 | 25 | 16% | 9 | 22% | p = 0.67 |
Fasching, et al. (1988) [23] | 5.8 | 32 | 25% | 14 | 86% | p = 0.00014 |
Hoos, et al. (2000) [24] | 4.5 | 18 | 6% | 3 | 33% | p = 0.13 |
Koukoutsis, et al. (2009) [29] | 0.5 | 1 | 0% | 0 | n/a | n/a |
Miyashita, et al. (2016) [30] | 4.4 | 16 | 6.3% | 29 | 50% | p = 0.0035 |
Wang, et al. (2006) [26] | 5.4 | 20 | 15% | 4 | 25% | p = 0.624 |
*P-value for difference in recurrence rate between patients with grossly complete and grossly incomplete resection.
Abbreviations: pt: patients.