Open AccessBUCCAL MUCOSAL TUMORS;
Author(s) -
Adnan Ahmed,
Muslim Khahro,
Mushtaque Ali Memon,
Surwaich Ali Channa,
Arhama Shah
Publication year - 2017
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/2017.24.10.702
Subject(s) - medicine , histopathology , cheek , gold standard (test) , buccal administration , nuclear medicine , radiology , dentistry , surgery , pathology
Objectives: To know the accuracy of puffed cheek technique in detecting buccalmucosal tumor keeping histopathology as gold standard. Study Design: Cross sectional study.Setting: Radiology and Imaging Department of Liaquat University of restorative and HealthSciences, cases were referred from dental department. Period: 2014 to 2015. Subjects andMethods: All these patients were underwent subsequently CT scan and histopathology. TheCT results were then compared with the histopathological results. Results: Total number ofpatients comprising my study was 44. Out of these 28 were males and 16 patients were females.Range of the age was from 25 to 55 years with mean of 36.2+4.3 years. The results provedthat sensitivity 88.2%, specificity was 100%, positive predictive values PPV was 100% and thenegative predictive values NPV 71.4% of CT scan with puffed cheek technique in detectingmucosal tumors while overall accuracy of CT in diagnosing buccal mucosal tumors patientswas 90.9%. Conclusion: CT puffed cheek is accurate technique to detect small buccal mucosaltumors.