title: [Diagnosis and treatment of rare tumors in the laryngeal-pharyngeal area (author's transl)].
abstract: From 1968 to 1979, 11 patients with rare tumors in the laryngeal-pharyngeal area have been treated by the Department of otolaryngology at the University hospital Homburg-Saar. These 11 cases consist of 6 benign and 5 malignant tumors. The malignant tumors were irradiated postoperatively by the Department of Radiology. There was found in the pharyngeal area 1 malignant despeciated leiomyoma, 2 malignant synovialomas and in the laryngeal area 4 local nongeneralised amyloidosis, 1 hamartoma, 1 chemodectoma, 1 pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma of the larynx and 1 primary "oat-cell" carcinoma. The initial exploratory excisions often led to an incorrect diagnosis: The final one was made postopertively. The large number of preoperative wrong diagnoses leads to the demand to only operate after extensive exploratory excisions.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000175:diagnosis; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D013584:Sarcoma, Synovial / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Diagnostik und Therapie seltener Tumoren im Larynx-Pharynx-Bereich.