Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to A Fałek.
Authors reports a rare case of the 41 years old woman with the primary tuberculosis of the nasopharynx with submandibular lymphonodulitis. The first suggestion in this case was neoplasma malignum. Antituberculosis treatment was satisfactory.
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Thus article has presented a late case of neurofibroma of the larynx. The attention has been directed towards diagnosis difficulties which were recognized before the histopathologic diagnosis has been established.
A case of 91 year-old woman with Schwannoma malignum of the orbit was described. Main symptoms communicated by the patient were increasing exophthalmos of a bulbus oculi and amblyopia. The surgical approach was lateral orbitotomy m. Kronlein and radical excision of the retrobulbar tumor.
There is presented a rare case of myxoma of the radix tongue that imitated by its appearance a cyst of the epiglottis. The tumor was removed by endoscopic means.
In the total number of 1032 patients with laryngeal carcinoma treated surgically in the period 1962-1988 were 26 women (2.5%). In 17 women total laryngectomy was carried out. Partial laryngectomy was done in 9 women. Long term results were discussed.
Five cases of the postcricoid carcinoma surgically treated during the last 6 years were described. During the same period 20 other patients with hypopharyngeal (piriform sinus) and 311 laryngeal cancer were operated upon.
A rare case of primary cancer in sphenoid sinus was described. The treatment consisted of surgery and radiotherapy.
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