[Advances in head and neck pathology in China over the past ten years: retrospect and prospect]

Chinese head and neck pathology has been comprehensively improved in the past ten year. This paper focuses on the observation and research of sinonasal epithelial tumors, non-epithelial tumors, inflammatory diseases, NK/T cell lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, oropharyngeal HPV-associated squamous cell carcinoma, laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma, ear neuroendocrine tumor, adenoid cystic carcinoma, endolymphatic sac tumor, and hyperplastic disease of Waldeyer's ring lymphoid tissue, etc. The difficult cases were reviewed. Hope to represent the whole picture of the progress of the subject. In the future, we will further strengthen the construction of discipline echelons, deepen the comprehensive and in-depth discussion and research of diseases, and make breakthroughs in the original understanding of diseases.