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Volume 7 Issue 6 (June, 2019)
Original Articles
| Demographic and Clinicopathological profile of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients : A Retrospective Study | |
| Rahul Sharma, Monika Mehta | |
Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common oral malignancy. The common clinical feature of OSCC is an ulcerated lesion with a central necrotic area and rolled up margins. Hence; the present study was planned for assessing and analysing the clinic-pathological features of OSCC. Materials & methods: Data records of a total of 100 OSCC cases were obtained from the archives of the department of oral pathology. A master chart was framed for summarizing the clinical profile of the OSCC patients. Habit history was also obtained from data records of all the patients. All the cases were classified on histopathological basis into Well-differentiated, moderately-differentiated and poorly differentiated OSCC. All the results were recorded in Microsoft excel sheet and were analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Significant results were obtained while comparing the age-wise, gender-wise and tumor differentiation-wise distribution of OSCC cases. 28 percent of the cases were of OSCC of tongue, while 25 percent of the cases were of OSCC of floor of the mouth.Among the tongue carcinomas, 12 cases were of well-differentiated, 10 cases were of moderately differentiated and 6 cases were of poorly differentiated OSCC. Significant results were obtained while assessing the clinic-pathologic distribution of OSCC cases. Conclusion: OSCC comprises of a varied clinical and histopathologic spectrum. Hence; early detection is necessary for improving the prognosis. Received: 11 April, 2019 Revised: 27 May 2019 Accepted: 30 May 2019 Corresponding author: Dr. Monika Mehta, Consultant, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Private Practice |
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