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Leukoplakia: A descriptive study
Journal of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, 2022 Aim: Leukoplakia is a common premalignant lesion associated with the use of tobacco. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of leukoplakia in a defined population.
Nidhi Thakur
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Prospective applications of artificial intelligence for the diagnosis of oral leukoplakia: a scoping review [PDF]
Frontiers in Oral HealthIntroductionOral leukoplakia (OL) is the most prevalent oral potentially malignant disorder worldwide. Its diagnosis is clinical and based on excluding all other white patches of the oral cavity, which can be challenging and time-consuming.
Constanza Jiménez +8 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 Oral leukoplakia presents as a white patch on the oral mucosa and is recognized as having significant malignant potential. Although colonization of these patches with Candida albicans is common, little is known about the bacterial microbiota of these ...
Sheila Galvin +2 more
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Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia misdiagnosed as oral leukoplakia
Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology, 2017 Correct diagnosis of white lesions of the oral cavity is sometimes difficult, because some oral white lesions behave differently and tend to change their appearance with time.
Rajesh Kumar Gupta +2 more
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Malignant Transformation Rate in Chinese Patients with Oral Leukoplakia: a Meta-analysis [PDF]
Zhongguo quanke yixue, 2023 Background Oral cancer is highly prevalent, which is often caused by oral potentially malignant disorders, and oral leukoplakia is the most common.
YANG Ling, HOU Lili, CHEN Weihong, WENG Ximei, LUO Shasha, XIA Jialin
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Genotyping Candida albicans from Candida leukoplakia and non-Candida leukoplakia shows no enrichment of multilocus sequence typing clades but enrichment of ABC genotype C in Candida leukoplakia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Oral leukoplakias are histopathologically-diagnosed as Candida leukoplakia or non-Candida leukoplakia by the presence or absence of hyphae in the superficial epithelium.
Mohammed H Abdulrahim +3 more
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Cigarette smoking as a risk factor associated with oral leukoplakia [PDF]
Archive of Oncology, 2002 BACKGROUND: It is well known that oral leukoplakia is the most common precancerous lesion of the oral mucosa. Although tobacco and alcohol are known to be major risk factors for oral leukoplakia worldwide, there are no data on risk factors for oral ...
Bokor-Bratić Marija, Vučković Nada
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Malignant transformation rate of oral leukoplakia: A meta analysis
Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2020 Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma is the most common form of head and neck cancer which is sometimes preceded by potentially malignant disorders such as leukoplakia.
P Ramaswamy +3 more
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BMC Oral Health, 2022 Background The doctor/nurse and police officer population have some common typical characteristics of great professional pressure and night shift and past studies indicated oral mucosa lesions were closely associated with psychological factors and health-
Yundong Liu +5 more
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Oral Leukoplakia – Is Biopsy at the Initial Appointment a Must? [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014 Background: Oral leukoplakia is a potentially malignant disorder of the oral cavity. Leukoplakias with chances of undergoing malignant transformation owing to the presence of dysplastic changes may not be clinically distinguishable from leukoplakias ...
Sunil Mutalik +4 more
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