Summary Stage 2018: Hypopharynx
Summary Stage 2018
Notes
**Hypopharynx**
8000-8700, 8940-8960, 8965-8983, 9000, 9050-9111, 9270, 9300-9312, 9340-9363, 9380-9539, 9541
C129-C132, C138-C139
C129: Pyriform sinus
C130: Postcricoid region
C131: Hypopharyngeal aspect of aryepiglottic fold
C132: Posterior wall of hypopharynx
C138: Overlapping lesion of hypopharynx
C139: Hypopharynx, NOS (laryngopharynx)
**Note 1:** **Sources used in the development of this chapter**
* SEER Extent of Disease 1988: Codes and Coding Instructions (3rd Edition, 1998) (https://seer.cancer.gov/archive/manuals/EOD10Dig.3rd.pdf)
* SEER Summary Staging Manual-2000: Codes and Coding Instructions (https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/ssm/ssm2000/)
* Collaborative Stage Data Collection System, version 02.05: https://cancerstaging.org/cstage/Pages/default.aspx
* Chapter 11 *Oropharynx (p16-) and Hypopharynx*, in the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, Eighth Edition (2017) published by Springer International Publishing. Used with permission of the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
**Note 2:** **Other Summary Stage Chapters with Hypopharynx sites**
* **GIST**: 8935-8936
* **Kaposi Sarcoma**: 9140
* **Melanoma Head and Neck**: 8720-8790
* **Mycosis Fungoides**: 9700-9701
* **Soft Tissue**: 8710-8714, 8800-8934, 8963-8964, 8990-8992, 9010-9045, 9120-9138, 9141-9262, 9271-9290, 9320-9330, 9364-9373, 9540, 9542-9582
**Note 3:** **Fixation**
* Code 2 If there is fixation of hemilarynx or larynx.
| SS2018 |
Description |
| 0 |
**In situ: noninvasive, intraepithelial** |
| 1 |
**Localized only (localized, NOS)**
* Confined to hypopharynx
* Laryngopharynx
* Postcricoid area
* Posterior pharyngeal wall
* Pyriform fossa or sinus |
| 2 |
**Regional by direct extension only**
* Carotid artery (encased)
* Central compartment soft tissues of neck including
- Prelaryngeal strap muscle(s)
- Subcutaneous fat
* Cricoid cartilage
* Esophageal mucosa or muscle
* Extrinsic muscle of tongue
* Fixation of structures in code 1 (localized with fixation)
* Fixation of hemilarynx, larynx or oropharynx
* Hard palate
* Hemilarynx
* Mandible
* Medial pterygoid
* Oropharynx
* Prevertebral fascia/muscle(s)
* Soft tissues of neck
* Thyroid cartilage/gland |
| 3 |
**Regional lymph node(s) involved only**
* Level I
- Level IA - Submental
- Level IB - Submandibular
* Level II - Upper jugular
- Jugulodigastric (subdigastric)
- Upper deep cervical
- Level IIA - Anterior
- Level IIB - Posterior
* Level III - Middle jugular
- Middle deep cervical
* Level IV - Lower jugular
- Jugulo-omohyoid (supraomohyoid)
- Lower deep cervical
- Virchow node
* Level V - Posterior triangle group
- Posterior cervical
- Level VA - Spinal accessory
- Level VB - Transverse cervical, supraclavicular
* Level VI - Anterior compartment group
- Laterotracheal
- Paralaryngeal
- Paratracheal - above suprasternal notch
- Perithyroidal
- Precricoid (Delphian)
- Prelaryngeal
- Pretracheal - above suprasternal notch
- Recurrent laryngeal
* Level VII - Superior mediastinal group (for other mediastinal node(s) see code 7)
- Esophageal groove
- Paratracheal - below suprasternal notch
- Pretracheal - below suprasternal notch
* Other groups
- Cervical, NOS
- Deep cervical, NOS
- Facial
+ Buccinator (buccal)
+ Mandibular
+ Nasolabial
- Internal jugular, NOS
- Parapharyngeal
- Parotid
+ Infraauricular
+ Intraparotid
+ Periparotid
+ Preauricular
- Retroauricular (mastoid)
- Retropharyngeal
- Suboccipital
* Regional lymph node(s), NOS
- Lymph node(s), NOS |
| 4 |
**Regional by BOTH direct extension AND regional lymph node(s) involved**
* Codes (2) + (3) |
| 7 |
**Distant site(s)/lymph node(s) involved**
* Distant site(s) (including further contiguous extension)
- Base of tongue
- Floor of tongue
- Hyoid bone
- Mediastinal structure(s)
- Nasopharynx
* Distant lymph node(s), NOS
- Mediastinal (excluding superior mediastinal node(s))
* Distant metastasis, NOS
- Carcinomatosis
- Distant mets WITH or WITHOUT distant lymph node(s) |
| 9 |
Unknown if extension or metastasis |
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