Male breast cancer: Austrian experience.

Data were collected on 169 men treated for breast cancer at 36 surgical departments in Austria between 1970 and 1991. We report here several of their clinical features and assess the importance of established prognostic factors. After a median observation period of 51 months 60 patients (35%) suffered a recurrence.

[Mediastinal lymphadenectomy. Anatomical basis and its surgical relevance in central bronchus carcinoma].

102 patients with potentially curable bronchial carcinoma were subjected to pneumonectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection regardless of gross appearance of the mediastinum at the time of surgery. 83 of these patients were analysed retrospectively. In 34 patients (41%) enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes were found; in 19 of these (56%) malignant invasion was verified histologically, whereas in 15 of these 34 patients (44%) the enlarged lymph nodes revealed only inflammatory changes.

[Long-term laryngoscopic follow-up in vocal cord paralysis following struma surgery].

Of 525 patients 17 (3.2%) showed a laryngoscopically established palsy of the recurrent laryngeal nerve after surgery due to goiter. A laryngoscopic follow-up of all these patients, performed at least one year after the operation, revealed that 76.

[Temporary and permanent recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis following thyroid surgery. Modifying factors: the educational status of the surgeon].

17 of 525 patients (3.2%) showed an laryngoscopically established palsy of the recurrent laryngeal nerve after surgery for struma. The analysis of these operations, performed by five surgeons during or within three years after the period of surgical training, revealed that the operations performed under assistance of the senior surgeons were high grade selected (p = 0.