Medisan (Dec 2017)

Clinical epidemiological characterization of head and neck tumors in children and adolescents from 2000 to 2016

  • Glennis Mojena Rodríguez,
  • Manuel Verdecia Jarque,
  • Ariadna Elvia Cardero Ruiz,
  • Yanelys Porto Perera,
  • Yusbel García Alarcón

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 12

Abstract

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A descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study of 23 patients with head and neck tumors, assisted in the Oncology Pediatric Service of “Dr. Antonio María Béguez César” Southern Teaching Children Hospital was carried out in Santiago de Cuba during 2000-2016. In the case material there was a prevalence of the 10-14 age group (39.1%), male sex, nasopharingeal localization (39.1%), non Hodking lymphoma and papillary carcinoma as histological varieties, phase III clinical stage and the highest number of patients diagnosed in 2013 and 2014.

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