Abstract

ESCALONA VELOZ, Rafael. Histopathological diagnosis of the oral cancer in "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.2, pp.223-228. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and retrospective investigation was carried out in the Pathology Department from "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, with the aim of determining the incidence of the histopathologically diagnosed oral cancer, for which the records of the biopsies carried out from 2008 to 2013 were reviewed, and the 28 with this diagnosis were selected. The most affected age group was the 59-69 group (50.0%), although 8 patients had less than 59 years (28.5%); the predominant anatomical localization was the tongue, followed by the palate (57.1% for both cases); the histological type most diagnosed was the squamous cell carcinoma (78.5%) and the most frequent toxic habit was smoking. It could be concluded that the mouth cancer had a high incidence in this hospital institution, so that care should be extreme in the implementation of the Program for early Detection of oral Cancer in the primary health care

Keywords : oral cancer; biopsy; histopathological diagnosis; squamous cell carcinoma; Pathology Department.

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