title: [Oral cavity and oropharynx malignant neoplasms in the material of the 2nd ENT Department of Silesian Medical Academy Zabrze].
abstract: Malignant neoplasms of the oral cavity and oropharynx in Poland make about 4% of all the malignant tumors in men and 1% in women. 90% of the histologic diagnoses is the squamous cell carcinoma. The most frequent sites of these neoplasms are: lower and lateral surface of the tongue, the bottom of the oral cavity, lingual surface of the labial gingiva, retromandibular triangle, tonsils and the root of the tongue. About 85% of all oral cavity and oropharynx tumors are detected after they reached 2 centimetre in diameter. 60% of these tumors are recognized in the level III or IV of the clinical grading. The aim of the study was to estimate the frequency of the oral cavity and oropharynx malignant neoplasms, their clinical grading, evaluation of histologic results and a kind of treatment. A retrospective analysis of 201 patients treated at The II ENT Department Silesian Medical Academy in Zabrze because of the oral cavity and oropharynx malignant neoplasms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In our group were 45 women and 156 men. The majority of the patients were clinically advanced of the disease. The most frequent site of the tumor was the tongue and tonsils. Histopathological study showed that the most frequent diagnosis was the squamous cell carcinoma (92.5%). In the greater part of the patients the combined treatment (surgery and radiotherapy) was applied (62.7%). The most important activity for the survival time elongation and decrease of the crippledom after surgery is the early detection of the disease.
authors.affiliation: II Katedra i Oddział Kliniczny Laryngologii Sl. AM w Zabrzu.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Namysłowski
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Trybalska
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Scierski
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009959:Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010036:Otolaryngology; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies