DIAGNOSES OF CASES SUBMITTED AS ORAL PRESENTATIONS IN THE BRAZILIAN CONGRESS OF ORAL MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY

The diagnoses of the cases submitted as oral presentations (OP) in the last 12 annual meetings of the Brazilian Society of Oral Medicine and Pathology (SOBEP) were retrieved from the abstracts available from 2006 to 2017. All diagnoses were classified in categories according to their etiology. There were 491 cases submitted as OP in the last 12 years; 210 cases collected from 5 Portuguese-language abstracts and 281 cases collected from 7 English-language abstracts. The median number was of 41 OP cases per year, varying from 24 to 64 cases. The most common group was malignant tumors (140 cases, 28.5%), mainly lymphomas and leukemias (33 cases, 23.5%), sarcomas (30 cases, 21.4%), squamous cell carcinoma (25 cases, 17.8%), metastases (24 cases, 17.1%), malignant salivary gland tumors (18 cases, 12.8%), and malignant odontogenic tumors (10 cases, 7.1%). A descriptive analysis of the diagnoses of OP cases in the last 12 SOBEP meetings is offered.