title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, TUTH, Maharajguni, Nepal.
authors.forename: Naramaya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Thapa
authors.forename: Anil Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Jha
authors.forename: Jisnu Prasad
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Rijal
authors.forename: Anupama
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shah
mesh_terms: D018263:Adenocarcinoma, Follicular / Q000453:epidemiology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D009390:Nepal / Q000453:epidemiology; D009959:Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology