[Comparison of clinical and histopathological diagnosis in oral surgery]

Only a successful cooperation of an oral surgeon and the pathologist can ensure a reliable diagnosis. The authors have analyzed operations performed during 1990 at outpatient clinic of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Zagreb, School of Dentistry. Clinical appearance of the disease and clinical diagnosis sometimes enable us to recognize the real nature of the disease. The clinical diagnosis in correlation with the histological diagnosis can be either denied or improved. The aim of this investigation was to correlate the clinical and the histological diagnosis and to find out the number of improvement. Material most often sent for histological examination was an operated cyst. Although the removed tissues were analyzed under different clinical diagnoses, approximately 70% of the clinical diagnoses corresponded to the histopathological findings. In one case the clinical diagnosis of benign lesion--hyperkeratosis-- was after histopathological examination find as carcinoma planocellulare. The authors recommend every part of the excised tissue to be sent for a histopathological examination.