[The presence of apoptotic neutrophils in contents of neck lateral cysts].

During the 2001-2003 time period 17 patients with neck lateral cysts were subjected to surgery at the Department of Otolaryngology, Regional Hospital in Tarnów. Collected cysts contents were analyzed with respect to bacterial infection and neutrophil presence as a measure of ongoing local inflammation. All samples were shown being sterile and half of them contained large numbers of neutrophils in advanced apoptosis.

[The value of cervical lymph node ultrasound examination in patients suffering from laryngeal cancer].

51 patients with laryngeal cancer were surgically treated on the ENT Departament of the St Lukas District Hospital in Tarnow between the years 1997-2000. The local advancement was stated as T3 and T4 according to the TNM system. The high grade of tumour differentiation (G1) was established in 13 patients (25.