Análise clínico patológica do carcinoma epidermóide oral em língua.

Abstract

Present study aimed to evaluate the clinicopathological profile of 65 cases of oral squamous cells carcinoma of tongue (OSCCT) recorded in a hospital, that is reference for cancer treatment, located at João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, by mean of cross-sectional analysis. Results were analyzed through descriptive study and Fisher´s Exact Test (p ≤ 0.05). Data related to age, gender, skin color, habits, TNM, presence of metastasis, histological grading of malignancy, type of treatment and clinical outcome were collected from files. The majority of cases exhibit average age of 65.5 years old, were male (n = 43; 66%), black (n = 29; 44%), smokers (n = 31; 48%), TNM grades III and IV (n = 35; 54%), with metastasis (n = 31; 48%) and high grade of histopathological grading (n = 43; 66%), treated through the association of surgery and radiotherapy (n = 19; 29%), and the disease remission in five years was the mains outcome (n = 46; 71%). Among all studied variables, metastatic cases of OSCCT showed significant association only with histopathological grading (p = 0,001) and the clinical outcome (p = 0,001) and, thus, it can be concluded that the presence of metastasis in initial diagnosis is an important factor for prediction of patients prognostic.