Chemoprevention in oral leukoplakia: challenges and current landscape
Frontiers in Oral Health, 2023 Oral potentially malignant disorders have the potential to transform into oral cancer. Oral leukoplakia is a prevalent OPMD with a 9.8% malignant transformation rate.
Victor de Mello Palma +5 more
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Research progress of oral hairy leukoplakia [PDF]
Kouqiang yixueOral hairy leukoplakia is an oral mucosal disease caused by Epstein-Barr virusinfection of oral squamous epithelial cells. Oral hairy leukoplakia presents as a non-removable, corrugated and wrinkled white plaque sometimes with hair-like projections ...
MO Longhui, LIANG Jing, WANG Jiongke, LIU Tiannan, ZENG Xin
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Immunoexpression of Podoplanin in Leukoplakia and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma and its Correlation with Survival: A Research Protocol [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Introduction: Podoplanin (PDPN) is a well-conserved mucin-type transmembrane glycoprotein. According to various studies, podoplanin expression is seen in various human cancers and it also encourages the progression of the tumour.
Samiha Jameel Ahmed Khan +4 more
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Nuclear localization of beta-catenin involved in precancerous change in oral leukoplakia
Molecular Cancer, 2007 Background Oral leukoplakia is a precancerous change developed in the oral mucosa, and the mechanism that oral leukoplakia becomes malignant through atypical epithelium is not known.
Hata Tsuyoshi +6 more
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Oral leukoplakia: Management protocol for primary health-care providers and family physicians
Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine, 2019 Oral cancer is very common in India. Most of the oral cancers develop on a potentially malignant (precancerous) lesion. Leukoplakia is the most common precancerous lesion in the oral cavity.
Ashok Kumar Jena +4 more
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Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2023 Background: Cigarette smoke releases free radicles that have deleterious effects on the oral mucosa including potentially malignant disorders and oral cancer. In response to cigarette smoking, salivary flow rate increases as a defense activity along with
Harshitha Akkinepally +5 more
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Feasibility of recruitment to an oral dysplasia trial in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) has a malignant potential. Therapeutic options for OED remain both limited and without good evidence. Despite surgery being the most common method of treating OED, recurrence and potentially significant ...
Dunn, Janet A. +3 more
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Oral leukoplakia, the ongoing discussion on definition and terminology [PDF]
, 2015 In the past decades several definitions of oral leukoplakia have been proposed, the last one, being authorized by the World Health Organization (WHO), dating from 2005.
Van der Waal, Isaäc
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Cyclooxygenase-2 and Ki67 Expression in Oral Leukoplakia: a Clinicopathological Study
eJournal of Oral Maxillofacial Research, 2015 Objectives: Oral leukoplakia is a precancerous lesion of the oral mucosa. The upregulation of Ki67 and cyclooxygenase-2 has been reported in both dysplastic and non-dysplastic tissues.
Alper Sinanoglu +2 more
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The treatment of oral leukoplakia with the CO2 laser: A retrospective study of 65 patients [PDF]
, 2017 The use of CO2 laser has become a routine procedure for the treatment of oral leukoplakia. In this retrospective study, we evaluated 65 patients with oral leukoplakia treated with CO2 laser vaporization. The main location was the tongue (n ¼ 21/65, 32.3%)
Bescós-Atín, Coro +3 more
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