Department of Otolaryngology;
The Second Affiliated Hospital;
Hunan Medical University;
Changsha;
Department of Otolaryngology;
The Second Affiliated Hospital;
Hunan Medical University;
Changsha878 patients with tumors in the head and neck were analyzed in a period of twenty years. All the diagnosis were confirmed by pathologic examination. There were 5485 cases (69.62%) of malignant tumors. Nearly an half of malignant tumors were in the nasopharynx (49.32%). Among the malignant tumors of the nasopharynx;
2698 were carcinoma (99.34%) and only 18 (0.66%) sarcoma. Nine of them were under 10 years of age;
the youngest patient was 3 years old;
and this is rare in our county. The incidence of head and neck tumors was 37.66% and that of the head and neck malignancies was 26.22% of tumors in the whole body. This study indicates that incidence of malignant tumor in head and neck was rather higher;
it is worth to improve ths procedure of treatment and prevention.;
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