Open AccessCharacterization of perineural invasion in different histological grades and variants of oral squamous cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
G Deepthi,
Ndvn Shyam,
G Kiran Kumar,
Vaishali Narayen,
K Paremala,
P. Preethi
Publication year - 2020
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/jomfp.jomfp_162_19
Subject(s) - perineural invasion , grading (engineering) , medicine , basal cell , pathology , lymph node , lymphovascular invasion , cancer , oncology , biology , metastasis , ecology
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) accounts for 3% of all malignant neoplasms and is the fifth most frequent cancer in the world. They usually spread by hematogenous or lymphatic spread, and perineural invasion (PNI) is considered an alternate method of tumor spread where it is described as the tumor affinity toward a neural tissue.