title: [Oral cancer. Retrospective analysis of 118 cases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Oral carcinoma is a form of neoplasia with well-known clinical and morphologic features. This study presents the difference of incidence and behaviour in relation to the time of onset of oral carcinoma, and describes the experience made at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Second University of Naples.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this study 118 patients are analysed. They are divided into 3 groups according to age: group A up to 40 years; group B, from 41 to 75 years; group C from 75 years onwards.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No patient of group A showed a carcinoma of verrucous type. This histologic type was found in group B, (14 patients: 14,1%) and in group C (6 patients: 46,1%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this study underline the importance of the time of onset in the behaviour of oral carcinoma and the age of patients.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Universitario di Patologia della Testa e del Collo, del Cavo Orale e della Comunicazione Audio Verbale, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tartaro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Santagata
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Capone
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Siniscalchi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Colella
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018289:Carcinoma, Verrucous / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005887:Gingival Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010157:Palatal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies