[Evaluation of late results for surgical treatment of chronic lateral epicondylitis].

The results of surgical treatment of 25 patients with lateral epicondytilis (tennis elbow) were analysed. The mean time before surgery was 2 years and 4 months. The patients' negative attitude towards surgery and the prolonged conservative treatment by general practitioners were the reasons for such a long period of ineffective conservative procedures.

[Parotid neoplasms from material in the Bydgoszcz otolaryngologic clinics in the years 1980-1994].

During the years 1980-1994 159 patients with parotid tumors were treated in ENT Clinic in Bydgoszcz. 26.4% (42 patients) of tumors were malignant.

[Malignant neoplasms of the tongue and tonsil-glossal angle from material obtained in the otolaryngology clinic in Bydgoszcz in the years 1981-1994].

In the period 1981-1994 in the ENT Department, University School of Medical Sciences in Bydgoszcz, 102 patients with malignant neoplasms of the tongue and the tonsillo-glossal angle were treated. The most common group comprised patients diagnosed with "planoepithelial carcinoma" (94 persons). The number of patients with tongue malignancies increased every year.

[Epidemiology of malignant neoplasms of the upper respiratory tract and oral cavity in the Bydgoszcz region].

The authors performed epidemiological analysis of malignant neoplasms of the nose, paranasal sinuses, throat, tongue, larynx and salivary glands in Bydgoszcz area. All the patients were treated in the Otolaryngological Clinic of Medical Academy in Bydgoszcz. Patient's sex, age, profession, living and environmental conditions as well as histopathological diagnosis were taken into analysis.