[Metastatic neck tumors of unknown primary localization]

The authors present their experience in the diagnosis and therapy of metastatic neck tumours of unknown primary localization. Over the period from 1975 to 1985 in Otorhinolaryngology Department of the Military Hospital in Sarajevo 200 patients with the so-called secondary deposits in the neck were treated. Of this number 14 (7%) were patients with unknown primary localization. In 64.29% of these patients metastases in the cervical lymph nodes had developed in deep lymph nodes of the upper jugular location. They were predominantly unilateral than bilateral. Morphologically, those were most frequently deposits of planocellular carcinoma (64.29%) which were in 77.45% of cases firmly fixed. Five-year survival-time was registered in 2 cases only (14.28%).