Sarcomas of the jaw.

A retrospective analysis is made of 61 patients with clinical and histological diagnosis of pure sarcomas of the jaw treated between 1950 and 1984. Surgery was the treatment of choice in 41 cases. Biopsy or palliative treatment were undertaken in the remaining patients.

Intraarterial association of cis-platinum and bleomycin in head and neck cancer.

In order to establish the response and tolerance to the intraarterial association of cis-platinum and bleomycin, we have treated 38 patients with advanced head and neck cancer with the following dosages: continuous infusion of bleomycin, 20 mg/m2/day on days 1 and 2, and cis-platinum, 100 mg/m2 in a 3-hr infusion on day 3. Each treatment cycle was repeated every 21 days, the duration being conditioned to tolerance and response. All the patients underwent at least one complete series of treatment.

Surgical treatment of thyroid cancer.

This report covers the authors' experience during 19 years with patients at Buenos Aires Municipal School of Oral, Cervical, and Thyroid Surgery at Rawson Hospital; at the Municipal Hospital of Oncology; and in their private practice. During this period, 165 patients underwent surgery for thyroid cancer. An analysis is made of the surgical treatments chosen, the different histological types encountered, and the lymph node and radical neck dissections performed.