Abstract

Introduction: The purpose is to study various laryngeal lesions through stroboscopic examination in patient visiting otorhinolaryngology outpatient department in a tertiary care hospital and to evaluate the various risk factors associated with laryngeal lesions. Methods: It was a 2 years cross sectional study done from October 2020 to October 2022 in a tertiary care hospital. The relevant clinical details pertaining to age, sex, chief complaints and addiction history were taken from medical records. A total number of 175 cases were studied who were attending hospital with different laryngeal symptoms through stroboscopy. Results: Out of the total 175 patients, 65 females and 115 males were evaluated with mean for age is 54.69, standard deviation for age is 15.56, median for age is 57. Benign laryngeal pathologies constituted 85(48.57percent) of total laryngeal pathology and the malignant group constituted 51.43 (90) percent of total population. 45.14 percentage of total population presented with no addiction history while the remaining 54.86% gave history of substance abuse. Conclusion: Supraglottic carcinoma formed the major proportion of laryngeal pathology in our study on patient presented with laryngeal pathology. Tobacco and alcohol intake and smoking has shown to be a potential risk factor for laryngeal malignancy.