Carcinoma of larynx : an epidemiological and pathological study

الملخص EN

This thesis is a prospective and retrospective study of 270 patients with carcinoma of larynx admitted from January 2, 1991 to May 31, 1995 in E.N.T.-Head and Neck Surgery Centre in Medical city in Baghdad.

The highest proportion of our patients from the middle part of Iraq .

Mean age group between 5th-8th decades with peak incidence in the 7th decade in males and 6th decade in females.

208 (77%) were males and 62(23%) were females and male: Female ratio was 3.

3 : 1.

256 (95%) of the patients were cigarette smokers.

262(97%) of carcinoma of larynx was squalors cell carcinoma.

Moderately differentiated carcinoma was the commonest grade