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Clinical evaluation of patients with squamous carcinoma of the oral cavity
G Colella1, M Gabriele, A Lanza
1Institute of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Second University of Naples.
Aims:
To make a clinical evaluation of patients with squamous carcinoma of the oral cavity.
Methods:
The clinical condition of 72 patients with squamous carcinoma of the mouth, hospitalized at the Institute of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, 2nd University of Naples, Italy, between 1992 and 1996, were examined. The patients were evaluated system by system, staged by TNM-UICC and classified by ASA and by the Karnofsky and Burchenal and the Zubrod et al. Performance status methods.
Results:
Evaluation by the two methods produced different results. Of the patients examined, 34.5% showed more than one systemic disorder. 51.4% were in ASA classes 3-4.
Conclusions:
The presence of a disease with poor prognosis associated with advanced neoplastic stage (stages III-IV; 69.4% of the total) precluded radical surgery in 32% of patients, who were treated with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
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