[Evaluation of the effectiveness of surgical treatment of metastases of laryngeal cancer to the lymph nodes].
The evaluation of surgical treatment results was done to 308 oncological patients to whom metastases were formed in lymph nodes between 1980-1984, following the previous surgical treatment of the laryngeal cancer. The evaluation included among others the following: cancer initial localization: T and N traits; the degree of malignancy; surgical radical intervention ; assertion of neoplastic cell plugs in vessels; the time of recurrent lymphatic metastases, etc. The efficiency of surgical treatment of metastases being formed following the previous surgical treatment of laryngeal cancer, measured by the time of 5 years asymptomatic life, equalled 33.4% in the discussed material. Moreover, it was stated that in the studied group of 308 patients the percentage of deaths was increasing in the subsequent years of taking observations (from 1980 to 1984) and depended also on patients overall condition, initial cancer localization, the degree of neoplastic advancement and on the degree of cancer histologic malignancy.