[The results of salvage surgery in the patients with the laryngeal cancer after failed radiotherapy].

The authors present material of 50 patients suffered from laryngeal cancer, who had performed salvage laryngectomy after failure radiotherapy. Greatest influence on the results of treatment had local and regional advanced of cancer and immediately tracheotomy before laryngectomy. The performance oft total laryngectomy is advocated as a salvage treatment in the ceases of failed radiotherapy. The authors underline that performance of laryngectomy after obtaining of laryngeal cancer on the basis of histopathological examination in a number of cases delayed the surgical treatment and thus caused in some of them that the patient's chance to be cured was lost.