Carcinoma of larynx, a review of 200 cases from Iraq

ABSTRACT

This paper studies the pattern and behavior of laryngeal carcinoma in two hundred Iraqi patients admitted to ENT Dept./Saddam College of Medicine Teaching Hospital through the years 1987-1992. The clinical presentation, TNM staging and histopathological behavior is discussed. This study shows that most of the patients [85%] presents for the first time in T3-Stage and required tracheostomy on admission, this might explain the poor prognosis of this type of cancer in our country in comparison with the developed countries; and stresses the need for a multidisciplinary clinics for its management in Iraq