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BMC Oral Health, 2021 Background The tongue has been identified as a high-risk site for malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinicopathological characteristics and treatment outcomes of the dorsal and ventrolateral ...
Shih-Wei Yang +4 more
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Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia Revisited: A Retrospective Clinicopathological Study
Clinics and Practice, 2021 (1) Objective: To review the criteria proposed by Cerero-Lapiedra et al. and to retrospectively identify the under-diagnosed disease in patients diagnosed with proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.
Snehashish Ghosh +13 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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PLoS ONE, 2020 It is hypothesized that same driver gene mutations should be present in both oral leukoplakia and cancer tissues. So, we attempted to find out mutations at one of the driver genes, CASP8, in cancer and adjacent leukoplakia tissues.
Richa Singh +8 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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Immunohistochemical Evaluation of EGFR Expression in Oral Dysplastic and Non-Dysplastic Leukoplakia [PDF]
Journal of Mashhad Dental School, 2023 Background: This study aimed to evaluate the expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in oral leukoplakia with and without dysplasia and normal mucosa by immunohistochemistry.Materials and Methods: In this study, 45 samples of oral ...
Nasrollah Saghravanian +3 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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Frequent detection of high human papillomavirus DNA loads in oral potentially malignant disorders [PDF]
, 2016 Human papillomavirus (HPV) is estimated to be the cause of 40-80% of the squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx but only of a small fraction of the oral cavity cancers.
ANTONELLI, Guido +10 more
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Characterisation of Clinicopathological and Molecular Features of Leukoplakia not Associated with Tobacco- A Scoping Review [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Tobacco has been implicated as the strongest risk factor for oral malignancies and common potentially malignant disorders. Recent trend shows an increase in the prevalence of these lesions in non tobacco population.
Kalpa Pandya +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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