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头颈外科包括了头颈部肿瘤及相关疾病的诊断和治疗。香港头颈外科的起源可以追述到本世纪60年代中期。当时的香港大学玛丽医院外科学系主任王源美教授是开创这一领域的先驱。香港最初只有普外科医生涉及到这一区域肿瘤的治疗，经过多年来其它专科的发展，目前香港头颈部的疾病已经可以由三个外科次级专科处理，即耳鼻喉科、整形重建科和普外科。20年来，在外科、放射科及化疗科的共同努力下，头颈部肿瘤在诊断及治疗方面获得的迅速的发展，这就使病人的预后得到了很大程度的改善。
Head and neck surgery includes the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancers and related diseases. The origin of Hong Kong head and neck surgery can be traced back to the mid-1960s. Professor Wang Yuanmei, the director of the Department of Surgery at the then University of Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital, pioneered this field. In the beginning, only general surgeons in Hong Kong were involved in the treatment of tumors in this area. After years of development of other specialties, the diseases of the head and neck in Hong Kong can now be handled by three surgical subspecialties, namely the ENT department, the Department of Plastic Reconstructive Medicine and General surgery. In the past 20 years, with the joint efforts of the departments of surgery, radiology and chemotherapy, head and neck cancers have achieved rapid development in diagnosis and treatment, which has greatly improved the patient’s prognosis.