Aspectos clínicos e histopatológicos de carcinomas espinocelulares orais: série de casos

Abstract

Introduction: Oral cancer is the fifth most frequent malignant neoplasm in men and the twelfth in women, with an expressive number of cases annually in Brazil, positioning the country in the first place in incidence in Latin America. The most common histological type is squamous cells carcinoma / spinocellular carcinoma (SCC), with the lower lip, lateral borders and base of tongue and buccal floor being the most common sites for its development. Objective: To evaluate the clinical and histopathological aspects of cases of oral squamous cells carcinoma. Methodology: This is a descriptive study of 12 cases of oral squamous cells carcinoma diagnosed by the Oral Pathology subarea of the UFJF Campus Governador Valadares between January 2017 and June 2018. Results: The minimum age observed was 47 years and the maximum of 75 years, with a mean age of 61.41 years. Most of the patients were male and smokers. All 12 patients were diagnosed from incisional biopsy. The predominant primary lesion was chronic ulcer. The main location was the tongue. As for the histopathological aspects, we observed epithelial neoplastic islets invading the connective tissue as the main characteristic. Conclusion: Among all the cases described in this study, most of them presented classic clinical and epidemiological aspects of this malignant neoplasm as ulcerated lesion, with a higher incidence in the male gender and smoker.It highlights the histopathological characteristics that define the diagnosis of the disease and emphansizes the importance of the dentist in the diagnosis.