CYTO-HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CORRELATION OF PREMALIGNANT AND MALIGNANT LESIONS OF THE ORAL CAVITY IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Objectives: Globally, oral cancer seems to be the sixth-utmost common cancer. Oral is chief among entire malignant tumors of men in Indian subcontinent and squamous cell carcinoma commonest all malignancies. Hence, present study, utility aspiration scrape cytology screening initial diagnosis lesions, confirm by histopathology, were studied. Methods: The enrolled patients underwent complete clinical history, examination, fine-needle (FNAC), cytological assessment, histopathological observations at VIMSAR, Odisha. Cytological smears stained with Diff-Quik Papanicolaou stains. interrelated concluding identification. Results: There 32 premalignant 60 lesions cavity. Overall 69.56% diagnostic accuracy for numerous intraoral was found. most site buccal mucosa, malignancy tongue. Among lesion, major, constituting 86.66% cases, fifth decade. Risk factor, mostly tobacco exposure, associated 66.66% cases a lesion. Conclusion: FNAC observed as precise convenient, simple, economical pre-cancerous cancerous