[Mucoceles of paranasal sinuses].

5 patients (1 woman, 4 men) with mucoceles of the paranasal sinuses were hospitalized in ENT Department in Kalisz from 1992 to 2001. In two cases mucocele was in frontal sinus and penetrated to orbita, in next two cases it was in maxillary sinus. In the case of woman mucocele was in ethmomaxillary complexus and destroyed medial and inferior orbit's walles.

[The giant osteoma of the ethmoid labyrinth in the patient cured in 1991 year].

A 52-year-old female patient is described who was aperated upon for a giant osteoma involving the right side ethmoid labyrinth bulging into the orbit shifting the eyeball, passing into right of the frontal and sphenoidal sinuses. We obtained complete cure and good cosmetic result.

[Postoperative maxillary cyst].

We presented the case report of a postoperative maxillary cyst, which developed 26 years after the radical Caldwel-Luc procedure in the maxillary sinus. This is a rare case in non-oriental population but it has been described well in Japanese literature. Considering the size and damage found in clinical and radiological examination, we suspected a malignant lesion.

[Tuberculosis of the larynx and pharynx in hospitalized patients in ENT Department of Voivodeship Hospital in Kalisz].

8 cases of tuberculosis were presented in this paper. Two patients had changes in the larynx and pharynx and one patient had pharyngeal tuberculosis and squamous carcinoma of epiglottis. Further specialty investigations e.

[Foreign bodies in the lower respiratory tract--experience based on material gathered in the ENT Department of Kalisz between 1984-2001].

Between 1984 and 2001, 33 patients were treated because of foreign bodies in their lower respiratory tract. The age of patients ranged from 0 to 74 years, but the most numerous group was children between 0 and 5 years--16 cases and between 6 and 15 years--9 cases. The most often met foreign bodies were: organic--17 cases, metal bodies 7, plastic 7.

[Open and closed laryngeal injuries].

Treatment and results of 13 laryngeal and trachea traumas have been presented. All patients were operated in 24 hours after the injury. We had good results, only two patients had vocal chord paralysis.

[Congenital cysts and fistulas of the neck].

On the base of literature and their own 123 patients the authors present the frequency, diagnostics and treatment of congenital neck fistulas and cysts. We had 9 congenital fistulas: 6 median and 3 lateral. We treated 114 patients with neck cysts.

[Cancers of nasopharynx in the material of ENT Department of Hospital in Kalisz].

In the nasopharynx we can find malignant and non-malignant tumors. Authors present diagnostic difficulties on the base on literature and seven own cases. CT and NMR is needed to describe infiltration.

[Tracheopathia osteochondroplastica].

The authors presents a very rare disease of trachea and bronchi on the basis of literature and their own case a 49-years old man. The diagnosis was made on the basis of CT trachea and bronchi, tracheobronchoscopy and biopsy with histopathological examination. The etiology of the disease is still unknown.