Clinical and histopathological presentations of sinonasal cancers in Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Sinonasal cancers are malignant neoplastic lesions of the nose and the paranasal sinuses. Sinonasal cancers are rare neoplastic lesions accounting for less than 1% of all malignancies and about 3% of all head and neck cancers. These lesions tend to affect mostly Africans, the Japanese and the Arabs. Kuijpens et al. reported of a greater incidence of sinonasal cancers in males than in females with a male-tofemale ratio of 2:1. Arnold et al. reported in a similar retrospective study of a male-to-female ratio of 2:1. The patients’ ages ranged between 28 and 92 years with a median age at diagnosis of 64 years. Likewise, Betlejeweski et al. found in another study a male-to-female ratio of 1.5:1, with ages ranged between 50 and 69 years. Fasunla and Lasisi also reported of male to female ratio of 2:1, with ages ranged between 4 and 69 years. Brobby also reported of a similar study male-to-female ratio of 1.5:1 with ages ranged between 36 and 79 years. Sinonasal cancers are associated with significant otorhinolaryngologic morbidity and mortality in West Africa. The symptoms of sinonasal cancers depend on site and the extent of disease and may initially include nasal obstruction, epistaxis, or symptoms consistent with chronic sinusitis such as headache, rhinorrhoea while Clinical Research