Caracterización clinicoepidemiológica de los tumores de cabeza y cuello en niños y adolescentes desde 2000 hasta 2016

A descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study of 23 patients with head and neck tumors, assisted in the Oncology Pediatric Service of “Dr. Antonio Maria Beguez Cesar” 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.