[Metastatic carcinoma of the neck--clinical analysis of our cases]

The authors made a retrospective analysis of 155 metastatic carcinoma of the neck cases, with localization of primary lesion in head and neck area. We made analysis of patients' sex and age, localization, extension and range of differentiation of primary lesion, and five year period of life after complete therapy has been done. The number of male patients with metastatic carcinoma was almost twice as big as the number of female (1.8:1). As to the age, maximal incidence of metastatic lesion on the neck was in the seventh decade (38.1%). In tumors with larger anatomic scopes (T3 and T4) and larger degree of malignity, metastasis on the neck has been more frequently registrated, although its appearance in a great extent depended on localization of primary tumor. Five years of period has been characterized by high percentage of death rate which was, according to the authors' opinion, not only due to a nature of disease, but also to a late discover of the disease and insufficiency of conventional treatment (surgical, irradiational, cytostatical).