Since the registration of almost all autopsy cases has started and listed in the Annual of Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan published by the Japanese Pathological Society in 1958, the author has been engaged in calculation of cases on certain diseases which has been added in the end of each volume of the Annual.
For exmaple, maxillary carcinoma (54 males and 60 females), pharyngeal carcinoma (35 males, 20 females and one sex unknown) laryngeal carcinoma (3 males), bronchial carcinoma (881 males, 275 females and one sex unknown), carcinoma of lip (2 males), carcinoma of tongue (27 males and 10 females), carcinoma of buccal cavity (14 males and 5 females) and esophageal carcinoma (274 males, 61 females and one sex unknown) were found among 20, 902 autopsy cases (12, 429 males, 8, 365 females and 108 sex unknown) in 1967.
A comparison was made among autopsy cases in 1958, 1960 and those in 1965, 1966 and 1967 concerning the incidences of the above malignancies in addition to carcinomas of stomach and liver, and the association of these malignancies with other malignant and benign tumors are discussed.
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