Complications and failure after partial laryngectomy

: The frequency and type of failures and complications after 259 partial laryngectomies in patients treated for cancer of larynx in Otolaryngology Department of Medical University of Lodz from 1980 to 1996 were evaluated. Among the failures a local and nodal recurrence, a distant metastasis and a second primary malignant tumor were taken into consideration. Furthermore, among the complications disfunction of breathing, swallowing, voice emission and abnormal healing were analyzed. The most often failure was local recurrence which had been observed in 36 patients (13.9%) and the most often complication was a granulation in larynx which had been observed in 45 patients (17.4%).