Etiopathological Factor, Clinical Presentation and Management of Hypopharyngeal Malignancies.
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2014-08
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Hypopharyngeal cancers have worst prognosis among
the all head and neck cancers. The aim of this study is to
study the etiopathological factors, clinical presentation,
treatment outcome and prognostic factors in relation to
different treatment modalities of hypopharyngeal cancer.
Over the period of two years 30 hypopharyngeal malignancy
cases were taken for the study and their etiology, clinical
presentation, treatment modality and prognostic factors
were studied and discussed. It was found that smoking
and poor oral hygiene is the important causative factors.
Among the patients only carcinoma of pyriform fossae were
found. It was commonly seen in between 5th to 7th decade
of life. Histopathologically they are squamous cell type and
were moderately to poorly differentiate. Most of the patients
presented at stage IV and stage III.Management was done
with a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The
treatment outcome was more or less the same regardless
of the treatment modality chosen.
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hypopharyngeal, cancer, chemotherapy, radiotherapy
Citation
Zonunsangi, Mallik Pradip, Sobita P, Bhutia Tenzing Jigmee, Th Sudhiranjan, Konyak S Yingnei. Etiopathological Factor, Clinical Presentation and Management of Hypopharyngeal Malignancies. Indian Medical Gazette. 2014 Aug ; 148 (8): 271-275.