A retrospective institutional based cross sectional study design was employed to assess the clinical and imaging pattern of laryngeal carcinoma. The study was conducted at TASH from January 2016 to July 2019. TASH is the largest referral hospital as well as the largest radiotherapy center. The source populations were all patients with laryngeal carcinoma who were referred to TASH during the study period. The study population was all patients who have cross-sectional imaging and pathology results being evaluate in the study period.
Patients whose medical records were irretrievable or incomplete were excluded from the study. The medical records of 92 patients were reviewed, 2 were excluded leaving 90 patients. The patient's demography, history, physical examination, CT and histopathology reports and laryngoscope exam were reviewed and filled on a structured questionnaire.
Data analysis: Data entering, coding and clearing for the quantitative data was performed using Microsoft excel and the analysis was performed with SPSS version 23. The socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of participants were computed by using simple descriptive statistics (mean, percentage, frequencies). Means and ranges were calculated from continuous variables. The agreement between imaging and laryngoscope examination was analyzed using cross-tabulation.
Ethical consideration: Ethical clearance was obtained from the ethics committee of the department of radiology before the commencement of the study.
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