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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1029-3019</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[MEDISAN]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[MEDISAN]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1029-3019</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1029-30192020000100057</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Características clinicoepidemiológicas de pacientes con cáncer de laringe]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Clinical epidemiological characteristics of patients with larynx cancer]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Omar Robert]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Zeila]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Camejo Carbonell]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[América Beatriz]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Neyra Barros]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Rafael Manuel]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Hospital Oncológico Docente Provincial Conrado Benítez García ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Santiago de Cuba ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>24</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>57</fpage>
<lpage>64</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1029-30192020000100057&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1029-30192020000100057&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1029-30192020000100057&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN  Introducción:  La laringe es la localización más común de los tumores malignos de cabeza y cuello no cutáneos.  Objetivo:  Caracterizar a los afectados por lesiones malignas de laringe.  Métodos:  Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, transversal y retrospectivo de 242 pacientes con carcinoma de laringe atendidos en el Hospital Oncológico Docente Provincial Conrado Benítez García de Santiago de Cuba, desde enero de 2013 hasta diciembre de 2015.  Resultados:  La mayoría de los pacientes eran hombres (88,8 %), con una relación de 8:1 respecto al sexo femenino, y la edad media fue de 65 años. Así mismo, el tabaquismo estuvo presente en 204 pacientes (84,3 %) y los tumores glóticos resultaron ser los más frecuentes, con 168 afectados, de los cuales 89,3 % presentó como primer síntoma la disfonía, seguida en orden del aumento de volumen cervical como manifestación principal del cáncer de supraglotis (26,6 %) y de subglotis (60,0 %). El estadio predominante al momento del diagnóstico fue el I (35,5 %).  Conclusiones:  En la actualidad los tumores malignos de laringe resultan un importante problema de salud por la tendencia ascendente en el número de pacientes a nivel mundial.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  Introduction:  The larynx is the most common localization of non cutaneous head and neck malignancies.  Objective:  To characterize those affected patients due to larynx malignancies.  Methods:  A descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study of 242 patients with larynx carcinoma was carried out, they were assisted in Conrado Benítez García Provincial Teaching Cancer Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January, 2013 to December, 2015.  Results:  Most of the patients were men (88.8 %), with an 8:1 ratio regarding the female sex, and mean age was of 65 years. Likewise, nicotine addiction was present in 204 patients (84.3 %) and glottic tumors were the most frequent, with 168 affected, of which 89.3% presented dysphonia as first symptom, followed in order by the increase of cervical volume as main manifestation of the supraglottis (26.6 %) and subglottis (60.0 %) cancer. The predominant stage at the moment of the diagnosis was the I (35.5 %).  Conclusions:  At the present time larynx malignancies are an important health problem for the upward tendency in the number of patients worldwide.]]></p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[neoplasias laríngeas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[disfonía]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[glotis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[instituciones oncológicas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[laryngeal neoplasms]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[dysphonia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[glottis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[cancer institutions]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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