title: [The presence of apoptotic neutrophils in contents of neck lateral cysts].
abstract: During the 2001-2003 time period 17 patients with neck lateral cysts were subjected to surgery at the Department of Otolaryngology, Regional Hospital in Tarnów. Collected cysts contents were analyzed with respect to bacterial infection and neutrophil presence as a measure of ongoing local inflammation. All samples were shown being sterile and half of them contained large numbers of neutrophils in advanced apoptosis. The apparent lack of efficient clearance of apoptotic neutrophils may lead to maintenance of the local inflammatory reaction in the neck cysts.
authors.affiliation: Oddział Otolaryngologii Szpital Wojewódzki w Tarnowie im. Sw. Łukasza. wdobros@wp.pl
authors.forename: Wiesław
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dobros
authors.forename: Karolina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Burda
authors.forename: Bogusław
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pacura
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Potempa
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Guzik
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis; D003560:Cysts / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009333:Neck / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000473:pathology*