[Parapharyngeal space tumors]

The authors presented material of 52 parapharyngeal space tumors seen ENT Department Medical University of Gdańsk in year 1980-1994. Majority of these tumors -32 (61.5%)-were benign (adenoma pleomorphum-22, adenolymphoma-4, neurilemmoma-4, ganglioneuroma-2). The remaining 20 (38.5%) tumors were malignant (cystis branchiogenes carcinomatosa-4, carcinoma planoepitheliale-3, lymphoma malignum-3, adenoma pleomorphum maligum-2, tumor mucoepidermalis-2, and tumor acinocellularis, chemodectoma, meningeoma malignum, haemangiopericytoma, chordoma, chondrosarcoma one of each.