A 10-year study of specimens submitted to oral pathology laboratory analysis : lesion occurrence and demographic features

• Autor(a) principal: Mendez, Marina
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Carrard, Vinícius Coelho, Haas, Alex Nogueira, Lauxen, Isabel da Silva, Barbachan, Joao Jorge Diniz, Rados, Pantelis Varvaki, Sant'Ana Filho, Manoel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/83386
• topic: Patologia bucal; Epidemiologia; Pathology, Oral; Risk; Epidemiology; Retrospective study

The purpose of the present paper was to describe the range of lesions histologically diagnosed in an oral pathology laboratory in southern Brazil. A retrospective study of 8,168 specimen analyses recorded between 1995 and 2004 was conducted. The records were retrieved from the Oral Pathology Laboratory, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brazil. A total of 6,831 valid cases (83.63%) were examined. Of these, inflammatory lesions were the most common occurrences (n = 4,320; 63.24%). Benign and malignant tumors accounted for 7.66% (n = 523) and 1.9% (n = 130) of the occurrences, respectively. Significant associations were observed between nonneoplastic proliferative disorders and benign mesenchymal tumors in females, and between squamous cell carcinoma and leukoplakia in males. Most diagnoses were benign in nature and had an inflammatory etiology. The association of some demographic characteristics with the occurrence of lesions suggests that these characteristics should be considered in performing differential diagnoses.