Open AccessNATURE OF ORAL BIOPSIES
Author(s) -
Syed Ghazanfar Hassan,
Muhammad Shahzad,
Salman Shams,
Uzma Bashir
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.03.1351
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , biopsy , oral and maxillofacial surgery , local anesthesia , histopathology , sedation , incisional biopsy , cross sectional study , odontogenic , surgery , general surgery , radiology , pathology
Biopsy is the removal of a tissue sample from a living body with the objectiveof providing the pathologist with a representative, viable specimen for histopathologicinterpretation and diagnosis. Objectives: To find out frequency and nature of oral biopsiesreported at liaquat university hospital Hyderabad. Design: Descriptive/Cross sectional. Period:1st February 2012 to 31st January 2014 Setting: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department, LiaquatUniversity Hospital Hyderabad. Material & Methods: A total of 180 patients were reported atOPD and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery ward of Liaquat University Hospital for oral incisional,excisional and punch biopsy purpose. Study design was descriptive/cross sectional study. Allpatients were treated both under general anesthesia as well as local anesthesia and sedation.All the biopsies were sent to histopathology department for confirmation of diagnosis. Results:119 patients (66.1%) were males and 61 patients (33.8%) were females with age range from10-80 years. Malignancy was diagnosed in 80 patients (44.4%) while odontogenic cysts werediagnosed as second common category with 38 patients (21.1%). Conclusions: Squamouscell carcinoma was diagnosed as the most common malignant lesion which is rising danger tothe society specially as the age advances.