Medical MCQ - Preferred treatment in a 60years old patient with Maxillary carcinoma involving anterolateral pa of maxilla is

Preferred treatment in a 60years old patient with Maxillary carcinoma involving anterolateral pa of maxilla is

Radiotherapy only

Total/extended Maxillectomy followed by radiotherapy

Radiotherapy followed by total/extened maxillectomy

Total/extended maxillectomy alone

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Radiotherapy followed by total/extened maxillectomy

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Treatment of maxillary carcinomas: Early cases with Stage I and II squamous cell carcinomas are treated with surgery or radiation with equal results. T3 and T4 lesions are treated by combined modalities of radiation and surgery. Radiation in such cases may be given preoperatively or postoperatively Ref: Dhingra 7e pg 233.

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