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Authors present a case report of 46 years old men with tumor of the posterior pharyngeal wall. Based on the clinical examination and MRI, the patient was qualified for surgical treatment. The patient underwent tumor resection under general anesthesia. Due to the histopathological examination of the obtained material, the diagnosis of ancient schwannoma was made.

Renal cell carcinoma accounts for about 2-3% of all malignancies. It is characterized by a high frequency of metastases, which are most often observed in the lungs, bones, liver, brain and regional lymph nodes. Literature highlights the rare occurrence of renal cancer metastases to the head and neck, even though it is the third most common cancer that metastasizes to the head and neck.Below we present a case report of metastases of clear cell carcinoma from a kidney to the organs of the head and neck. The analysis was carried out retrospectively based on medical records of a patient hospitalized at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery of the Medical University of Warsaw in the years 2009-2019. We describe an 81-year-old man after left-sided nephrectomy due to clear cell carcinoma, with numerous distant metastases, who was diagnosed with metastases to the left submandibular salivary gland 8 years after primary surgery, followed by a diagnosis of metastasis to the right submandibular salivary gland 3 years later. The patient underwent 2 radical procedures to remove the submandibular salivary glands. Due to the presence of lung metastases, treatment with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor was also implemented.

Introduction: Comparision of hearing outcomes in patients with conductive hearing loss after surgical treatment should be standardized. In 1995 the Committee on Hearing and Equilibrium of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery published guidelines to standardize the reporting of treatment results in ossiculoplasty, stapes surgery, Meniere’s disease and schwannoma of the cerebellopontine angle. Despite the fact that the quality of presenting results significantly improved, some limitation remains. In 2012 Hearing Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery published minimal standard of reporting hearing outcomes relating average pure-tone thresholds to word recognition score in scattegram. Aim: Authors present the results of surgical treatment of otosclerosis based on 46 cases treated at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland using the AAO-HNS guidelines from 1995 and 2012. The aim of the study was to evaluate the postoperative hearing results and to compare them with preoperative audiometric results and with similar reports published in the medical literature. Materials and methods: Retrospective analysis of medical history of patients with otosclerosis. Results: In this work the post-operative air bone gap ≤10 dB recognised as a very good result was obtained in 67.4% of patients. The post-operative air bone gap ≤20 dB, recognized as a good result was obtained in 89.1% patients. Conclusions: It is recommended to standardized the post-surgical audiometric data to compare the results among the different Departments.