[Partial surgery of carcinomas of the glottis. Results and prognosis (author's transl)].

The authors present a computerized study of the prognosis of 132 cases of carcinoma of the glottis treated by vertical, partial surgery and seen over a period of 1 to 15 years at the Laennec Hospital. After defining the percentage survival at 3.5 in 10 years, the authors studied the causes of death and showed that, after 5 years, it is still deaths due to malignant recurrence which influenced the vital prognosis. These local, lymphnode and metastatic oncological failures are subsequently analyzed on the basis of clinical, surgical and histological parameters as well as in terms of the course of the disease. Such analysis makes it possible to draw the distinction between local recurrence and a second local tumor localization, and pulmonary metastases from a second pulmonary localization. Finally, the prevention of rare lymphnode recurrences is considered in terms of specific surgery for this purpose.