Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2017

Clinical Profile of Hypopharyngeal Cancer

Dr. Ajaykumar K Francis, Dr. Pramod Menon

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 Hypopharyngeal malignancy has the worst prognosis of all head and neck tumours. It is mostly seen in male smokers and alcoholics. We did a cross sectional study of 20 patients who attended the department of ENT, Government Medical College, Thrissur in one year from June 2010 and diagnosed to have carcinoma hypopharynx. We concluded that Carcinoma hypopharynx commonly affect males, with male to female ratio of 9:1. Smoking was the most common risk factor (95%), followed by alcoholism (70%). Dysphagia was the commonest symptom, followed by hoarseness in. Patient can also present with cervical lymphadenopathy 

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DR. AJAYKUMAR K FRANCIS, DR. PRAMOD MENON, Clinical Profile of Hypopharyngeal Cancer, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾2 | February‾2017

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