[Evaluation of frequency of recurrence in malignant head and neck neoplasms in the years 1980-1990]. / Ocena czestosci wystepowania wznów w nowotworach zlosliwych glowy i szyi w latach 1980-1990.

During the years 1980-1990 in the Otolaryngological Department of the Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice 452 patients with malignant neoplasms of the head and neck were treated. 154 (35%) patients treated by radiotherapy. 140 (30%) were operated, 133 (29%) were treated by both methods and 25 (6%) were treated symptomatically. 139 (30%) out of them have had the recurrencies after the treatment. The authors made the analysis of frequency of recurrencies in years 1980-86 in comparison with period 1987-90. The statistically significant increase of frequency of recurrencies in years 1987-1990 was found.

[Diagnosis and treatment of tumors of the infra-temporal fossa]. / Diagnostyka i leczenie guzów dolu podskroniowego.

Authors present ten cases of tumors of the infratemporal fossa that have different etiology being treated by operation. Six of the patients died, four of them are alive. Authors describe diagnostical principles of these types of tumors.