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1 Radiotherapist, Radiology Associates, P. A., Little Rock, Arkansas.
2 Radiotherapist and Professor of Radiotherapy, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas.
Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal vestibule is controlled in a high percentage of cases by various modalities of radiation therapy.
Of 22 patients treated by irradiation, local control was obtained in 19 patients, with 1 of 3 recurrences salvaged by surgery. Cervical lymph node metastases were successfully treated in 3 patients, whose primary lesions were controlled.
Only 1 patient whose primary lesion was controlled had a major complication.
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