title: Supravital staining: It's role in detecting early malignancies.
abstract: The efficacy of supravital staining in the detection of malignancies in oro and oropharyngeal lesions and its role in the detection of malignant changes in premalignant lesions were studied. This prospective study comprises 90 cases of clinically suspicious lesions and it was done over a period of 3 years. Most of the patients had multiple risk factors for the development of malignancy. All underwent staining with a modified solution of 1% toluidine blue (TB). In our study the overall sensitivity was 97.29% and the specificity was 62.5%.
authors.affiliation: Department of ORLHNS, Kasturba Medical College, Attavara, 575 001 Mangalore, Karnataka India.
authors.forename: Mahesh Chandra
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Hedge
authors.forename: Panduranga M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Kamath
authors.forename: Suja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shreedharan
authors.forename: Naveen Kumar
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Dannana
authors.forename: Ravikumar M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Raju
keywords: Supravital staining; cancer detection; oral and oropharyngeal malignancy; premalignant conditions; toluidine blue