Nigerian Dental Journal, 2023 Oral leukoplakia is a potentially malignant lesion and most oral squamous cell carcinomas occur on the background of oral leukoplakia. The risk of malignant transformation increases with immunosuppressive states.
Mercy Okoh +2 more
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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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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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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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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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Indian Journal of Dental Research, 2022 Context and Aim: Oral leukoplakia has recently been re-defined as “a predominantly white lesion of the oral mucosa that cannot be characterised as any other definable lesion”.
Jobin Mathew Kuthoor +3 more
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Estimation of Circulating Immune Complexes in patients with Oral Leukoplakia and Oral Submucous Fibrosis: A Case Control Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014 Purpose of the Study: The present study was conducted to estimate the serum levels of Circulating Immune Complexes in patients with Oral Leukoplakia ,Oral sub mucous fibrosis and normal subjects and correlate these values with the clinical grades of ...
Maheswari H. +5 more
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