THE STATUS OF THE TREATMENT OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY TUMORS IN HUE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Objective: To evalate the status of the treatment of Ear-Nose-Throat tumor pathology in inpatients at the Department of Otolaryngology, Hue University Hospital. Subjects and Methods: Including 183 patients diagnosed and treated with tumor at the Ear-Nose-Throat region at Department of Otolaryngology, Hue University Hospital. Results: The percentage of female patients infected with tumors was higher than that of men (with 54.1%), but the number of men having cancer was greater than that of women with the ratio of 1.7/1. The most common reason for going to hospital was pain at Ear-Nose-Throat region, hoarseness, nasal sinus symptoms (bleeding nose, stuffy nose, spit blood...), swallowing disorders. There was 84.7% of patients detected disease before 6 months. Benign tumor accounted for 91.3%. Surgery was the main treatment methods. Conclusions: Tumor Pathology at Ear-Nose-Throat region are more and more popular and they tend to rejuvenate. Most of them are benign disease, malignancies occur more frequently in men (ratio 1.7/1). The most popular tumors appear at throat - laryngeal (56.3%), followed by nasal sinus tumors (30.1%). The majority are diagnosed before 6 months. Surgery is the main treatment and have good results. Key words: tumor, Hue University Hospital