[Clinicopathologic characteristics of laryngeal neoplasms in the region of Cartagena from 1972 to 1984].

We have carried out a research into the clinicopathological characteristics of the cancer of larynx between 1972 and 1984 in the area of Cartagena, with a populations that oscillated between 210,944 and 250,233 inhabitants, and over a number of 207 cases. We observe that the symptom to which the patients attach most importance and the reason why they most often consult is dysphonia or voice-alteration, and that its clinical development average time until diagnosis is of 6.08 months. It is to be pointed out the proportion of supraglottic carcinomas which at the moment of diagnosis usually show a T3 or a T4 stage and palpable adenopathies in a third of the patients. On the contrary, glottic carcinomas are usually T1 lesions and without satellite adenopathies. With regard to the histologic type, the great majority of cases belong to epidermoid carcinomas, followed at a great distance by warty carcinomas and finally by pseudosarcomas.