Abstract
Sixteen patients with various head and neck tumors (laryngeal papilloma, lymphangioma, malignant melanoma, others) were treated by CO2 laser. A lymphanigioma of the tongue, seen in a child, was well cured; the patient was able to take food orally immediately after surgery. Because of easy surgical manipulation, little bleeding and less chanse of the tumor cell dissemination, laser surgery seemed to be the most beneficial tool for treatment of malignant melanoma. The patients with malignant melanoma, who underwent laser surgery, did not complain of pain, and no recurrent signs were observed for one year follow-up. Bone necrosis occurred in a case of hard palate tumor. However there was no life threatening complication in laser surgery.
