[Contribution to the diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of head and neck tumors in childhood and adolescence: experience with 94 own cases (author's transl)].

The head and neck region is - among the body regions - one of the most frequently affected one by malignant primaries in childhood and adolescence. The diagnosis of malignant lymphomas (Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's type) predominanted (55 cases) in the own case material of 94 patients. Besides, there were 21 tumors of mesenchymal origin, 11 neuroepithelial tumors and 5 cases of histiocytosis X. The first symptoms are often discret (painless swelling) and they represent one of the major problems in handling childhood tumors. An optimal therapy, which resulted in longterm cures in the majority of the own patients, is based on an intensive team-work of pediatricians and ENT-doctors. One of the important points for successful treatment is individualizing the intensity of each of the effectful modern therapeutic modalities.