title: [Malignant tumors of the oropharynx].
abstract: Data on 31 patient suffering from malignant tumors of oropharynx were analyzed during a 5 year period at the Clinic for otorhinolaryngologic diseases. Oropharynx carcinoma was pathohistologically diagnosed in all patients. It is an illness which occurs in older people, in 87% in patients older than 60 years of age, and mostly in males (9:1). 77.4% were smokers, 83.8% consumed alcohol while 38.7% were treated for alcoholism. The first and most frequent symptoms are odynophagia (58.1%) and dysphagia (38.7%). Metastases of lymph nodes of the neck were present in 64.5% of the sick at the time when sickness was diagnosed and all were ipsilateral. 25.8% of patients were surgically treated and 6 of them were also treated by radiation. 54.8% of patients were primarily treated with telecobalt therapy. Three year survival in 3 patients points to extremely negative localization of the malignant process with a bad course and outcome.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za bolesti uva, grla i nosa, Medicinski fakultet, Novi Sad.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jović
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Majdevac
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009959:Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Maligni tumori orofarinksa.