[Failure of surgical treatment in patients with laryngeal neoplasm treated at the Department of Otolaryngology Medical Academy in Lublin].

We have analysed the causes of failure of surgical treatment of the patients with laryngeal carcinoma. Among 269 patients operated in different stages of the disease, 100 (37.0%) of them showed in retrospective analysis negative result of the treatment, that is the recurrence and/or death. The local recurrence have been discovered in 30 (30.0%) of the patients, approximately after 11 months, and the metastases in local lymphatic nodes in 19 (19.0%) of the patients--approximately after 13 months. The distant metastases appeared in 13 (13.0%) of the patients, approximately after 22 months following the operation. Twelve of the patients (12.0%) died of the other reasons. The majority of the patients were at the III-rd stage of the disease (87.0%), but also the patients with changes in the upper part of larynx (92.0%). Among the operated patients whose time of survival was the shortest, there were the patients in the III-rd stage of clinical advancement and with the changes localised in several parts of larynx including the highest part of larynx.