Open AccessA study on histological grading of oral squamous cell carcinoma and its co-relationship with regional metastasis
Author(s) -
Mahmuda Akhter,
Shakhawat Hossain,
Quazi Billur Rahman,
Motiur Rahman Molla
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology/journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.455
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1998-393X
pISSN - 0973-029X
DOI - 10.4103/0973-029x.84485
Subject(s) - grading (engineering) , medicine , malignancy , metastasis , basal cell , lymph node metastasis , lymph node , biopsy , pathology , oncology , radiology , cancer , biology , ecology
Histological grading is an important diagnostic tool to predict the clinical and biological behaviour of cancer. Cervical lymph node metastasis indicate poor prognosis of oral cancer. Considering economical status of a third world country, Anneroth's grading system is less expensive, more informative than TNM staging and Broder's grading system. Anneroth's grading system also shows co-relationship with lymph node metastasis. So we are trying to evaluate the Anneroth's grading as a standard one among these three system.