Study on head and neck tumours presented in ENT OPD of Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital.

ABSTRACT

This retrospective study was carried out to analyze the types of head and neck tumours on the basis of site and histopathological type. A total of 35 patients with head and neck tumours (M 19 and F 16; aged 15 to 68 years) were included. Thyroid neoplasm was the commonest (20.0%) patients followed by tumour of larynx (17.1%), oropharyngeal tumour and (14.3%), oral cavity tumour ranked number one (14.3%) followed by tumours of nose (11.4%) and others. All thyroid neoplasms were follicular type whereas all laryngeal tumours were squamous cell carcinoma.