Background: To evaluate the clinical, hystopathologycal features and correlation between lymph node metastasis and hystopathologycal grade in patients with carcinoma of the oral cavity.
Materials and Methods: From July 2015 to July 2016, 32 patients with carcinoma of the oral cavity at Hue Central Hospital
Results: The most common age group from 51 to 60 years and the male/female ratio was 1.9/1. Tumor were usually observed around the the tongue (40.6%) and oral floor (34.4%). Most of the tumor size is larger than 2 cm diameters (> 80%). The regional lymph node metastasis rate was 43.8% and there was a positive correlation between lymph node metastasis and tumor size (p <0.05). Squamous-cell carcinoma was mainly type of histopathology. Difference between the rate of lymph node metastasis in patient groups with different histopathological grade show no statistical significance (p> 0.05).
Conclusion: the greater tumor, the higher regional lymph node metastasis. There is no relationship between the lymph node metastasis rate and histopathological grade of oral carcinoma.
Key words: : carcinoma of oral cavity, tumor size, lymph node metastasis, histopathology
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