Abstract
This study was done to investigate the incidence of secondary oral malignant tumors that metastasis from other parts of the body in the Iraqi patients that affected with oral malignancy which may be a valuable in early discovery of malignancy and saving patient's life.This study was conducted through the analysis of data base collected from records in the histopathology lab in Specialized Surgery Hospital in Baghdad which belong to patients attended maxillofacial surgery department at period 2005-2009 and their number was 122 patients.The analysis included age, sex, malignant and benign lesions and type of malignant lesions. The results showed equal male to female ratio (55.47%) of the patients complained from malignant lesions; while (44.26%) were affected by benign lesions.Non-Hodgikn's lymphoma was the only systemic malignancy which showed oral manifestation in this sample.We concluded that further investigations are needed to know the real incidence of this type of malignancy
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