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Epidemiological Aspects in Lip Tumors in Oltenia Region of Romania During 2012-2016

Purpose. The objective of this study was to review lip tumor diagnosed subjects from Oltenia region, in the past 5 years according to gender, age, home environment, profession, geographic area, smoking habit, associated diseases, tumor location, macroscopic aspect and histological type. Material and...

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Autores principales: SALAN, A.I., CAMEN, A., CIUCA, A., PATRU, A., SCRIECIU, M., POPESCU, S.M., ALEXANDRU, D.O., TURCU, A.A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medical University Publishing House Craiova 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30622754
http://dx.doi.org/10.12865/CHSJ.44.01.07
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Sumario:Purpose. The objective of this study was to review lip tumor diagnosed subjects from Oltenia region, in the past 5 years according to gender, age, home environment, profession, geographic area, smoking habit, associated diseases, tumor location, macroscopic aspect and histological type. Material and Methods. The study was done at the Oral and Maxillo-Facial Clinic of the Emergency Clinical County Hospital of Craiova, and involved the analysis of patient file records, surgical registers, histopathological bulletins, from 2012-2016. Results. Of the 175 subjects included in this study, all of them diagnosed with lip tumor pathology, 109 (62.29%) were men, and 66 (37.71%) were women, all of them with ages between 6 and 92 years, with a mean age of 61 years. Distribution of study participants according to the home residence showed that majority of the subjects lived in rural area. The most frequently localization of lip tumors in study participants was at the lower lip-140 cases (80%), than at the upper lip-35 cases (20%).According to histological characteristics, distribution of the malignant lip tumors was 87.39%-squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), 5.41%-basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and 7.20%-other type of tumors. Conclusions. The lower lip was the most affected, by lip cancer, and squamous cell carcinoma represents the most frequently histological type of these tumors.