title: Incidence of malignant tumors of larynx and their treatment.
abstract: We retrospectively analyzed patients with larynx cancer that were treated at ENT Clinics in Sarajevo in the last 5 years. According to the tumor site, TNM classification, operative procedure and postoperative treatment we found the following: Over the last 5 years 156 patients underwent surgical treatment--143 (91,6%) male and 23 (8.4%) female. According to the age 1 patient belonged in the age group 30-40 years (0.64%), 25 in the age group 40-50 years (16%), 51 in the age group 50-60 (32.7%), and 79 were over 60 years of age (50.6%). Of those 145 were smokers (93%), and 11 non-smokers (7%). Histological findings showed 100% cases with squamous cell cancer. Most of the patients were surgically treated with total laryngeoctomy with unilateral or bilateral dissection and thyroidectomy or lobectomy (29%) or total laryngectomy with thyroidectomy or lobectomy (23%), total laryngectomy (22%). The rest of the patients underwent total laryngeoctomy with unilateral or bilateral dissection (16%) chordectomy (4%), supraglottic laryngectomy (3%), hemilaryngectomy (2%) and hemilaryngectomy with dissection (1%) All patients were postoperatively irradiated and chemotherapy was combined with irradiation only in younger patients.
authors.affiliation: ENT Clinics, Sarajevo University Clinics Center, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Jasminka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alagić-Smailbegović
authors.forename: Adnan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kapidzić
authors.forename: Kamenko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sutalo
authors.forename: Mudzahid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Resić
authors.forename: Edina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hadzić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006184:Habits; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018307:Neoplasms, Squamous Cell / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution