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OBJECTIVE@#To study the characteristics of head and neck lymphoma in order to improve its diagnose rate.@*METHODS@#Review and analysis 170 patients with head and neck lymphoma in department of otolaryngology of Xiangya hospital from 1997 to 2005.@*RESULTS@#Nasal cavity and nasal sinuses, neck, tonsil were the common place of the origin of head and neck lymphoma. There are 9 cases Hodgkin disease and 161 cases non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). T cellularity, B cellularity lymphoma, the mixed pattern and nullityping accounted for 60.9%, 36.0% and 3.1% of these patients with NHL, respectively. CHOP and radiotherapy were the main treatment method.@*CONCLUSION@#The clinical and imageology manifestation of head and neck lymphoma were of diversification and no specificity, whose final diagnosis depended on immunohistochemistry.