Relationship of oral tumor thickness with the rate of lymph node metastasis in neck based on CT scan

Objective: to determine the relationship of tumor thickness of oral lesions with metastasis in neck based on ct scan. methods: a total of 58 oral squamous cell carcinoma patients having the median age of 46 (39-55) years. with either gender presented with malignant tumor of buccal mucosa and tongue were prospectively enrolled. a ct scan with contrast was performed on all patients. correlation of tumor thickness level with metastasis in neck was calculated using spearman’s rank correlation coefficient test. results: median age of the patients was 46 (39-55) years with preponderance of male gender,i.e. 48 (82.8%). strong positive significant correlation was observed in between transverse dimension (ts) tumor size and stages of tumor (rho 0.673,p-value <0.001),anterioposterior (ap) tumor size and stages of tumor (rho 0.675,p-value <0.001),and craniocaudal (cc) tumor size and stages of tumor (rho 0.771,p-value <0.001). conclusion: ct scan of neck with contrast can be used for predicting the positive presence of lymph node in neck with primary tumors having a size of more than 4 mm. © 2017,professional medical publications. all rights reserved.