7^thGlobal Dentists and Pediatric Dentistry Annual meeting

Biography

Biography: Dr.NARJISS AKERZOUL

Abstract

PURPOSE: rnStudy the epidemiological and histopathological profile of the oral cancers in children in care at the Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery departments at the 20 August hospital in Casablanca, and at the hospital of children in Rabat. Our aim is to define the importance of the pediatric oncology, especially the one affecting the oral cavity, and also to describe the oral cancers in children, theirs frequences and theirs histopathological characteristics. We did collect 71 patients consultation records and files between 2004- 2012. rnMATERIALS AND METHODS: rnThis is a retrospective study of 126 children hospitalized between 2010 and 2013 of the Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Department, Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery department at the 20 August hospital in Casablanca, and also in the Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Department at the hospital of children in Rabat, and in which we did diagnose a confirmed cancer of the oral cavity. rnRESULTS:rn In our sample, all age groups were affected by the disease process, but ages between [0-4] years and between [13-16] were the most affected with an average of age of 8 years, and extremes ranging from 4 months to 16 years. In our population sex sample, we noted a slight female predominance with 50.7% of cases . Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Burkitt was the most common histological type with 35.2% of cases. Cheeks represented the most frequent localization with 37.9% of cases, while the maxillary represented 19.7% of cases. Chemotherapy has been the exclusive therapeutic strategy most used in our sample in 67.6% of cases.rn CONCLUSION: rnEpidemiological, clinical and pathological characteristics of cancers of the oral cavity in our population are not different from the literature data. However, the parents lack of awareness and late diagnosis of these lesions appear to be responsible for the dramatic profile of oral cancers.rn