European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

FNAC OF ORAL AND OROPHARYNGEAL MASS – A STUDY IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Shipra Gupta, Mustafa Ali* and Garima Gupta

ABSTRACT

Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a procedure to obtain cells and tissue fragments through a needle introduced into abnormal tissue or mass and its cytological study (1). It was first introduced in 1930 by Martin, Ellis and Stewart. Oral and oropharyngeal mass lesions are commonly diagnosed by biopsy. But FNAC is a less invasive, less traumatic and cheap method for diagnosis of such lesions. Present study was done to know prevalence of different lesion in oral and oropharyngeal lesion and effectiveness of FNAC in their diagnosis. This study was conducted in the tertiary care hospital in Lucknow over a period of two years. A total of 56 cases were studied. Most of the samples were found adequate. Males were more commonly involved than females and Squamous cell carcinoma was most prevalent lesion diagnosed in our study. FNAC was very accurate and diagnostic in almost all cases without any major complication to the patients.

Keywords: Fine needle aspiration cytology, Oral & oropharyngeal mass, Prevalence of lesions.