[Prevalence of malignant oral neoplasms in the Celia Sanchez Clinicosurgical Hospital from 1982 to 1985].
Malignant tumors of the oral cavity rebound on the organism of the affected patients, because it is the open door of the digestive apparatus and any alteration of it, involves nutritional status. Besides oral cavity is easy to approach for its examination, importance of early detection of such neoplasias for the patient moves us to review 13,267 reports of biopsies from the Department of Pathologic Anatomy, "Celia S++ánchez" Clinicosurgical Hospital; 50 of such biopsies present diagnosis of malignant neoplasia of the oral cavity and are selected in order to know prevalence (0.37%), the most frequent locations (tongue, 50%), most affected age (sixth to seventh decades of life), sex (prevalence of male sex, 80%), and also to contribute to the widest knowledge and to the development of the plan for the early detection of oral cancer carried out by the Ministry of Public Health.
Ruiz Méndez
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Paseiro Garriga
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Escalona Veloz
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Marcos Corzo
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001706:Biopsy; D003462:Cuba / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors
Prevalencia de neoplasia maligna de la cavidad bucal en el Hospital Clinicoquirurgico "Celia Sanchez" años 1982 a 1985.