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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, Vimi S. Mutalik, Keerthilatha M. Pai, Venkatesh G. Naikmasur, Khoo Suan Phaik   +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, Roopa S. Rao, Manoj K. Upadhyay, Karuna Kumari, D. Sharathkumar Sanketh, A. Thirumal Raj, Sameena Parveen, Yaser Ali Alhazmi, Ankur Jethlia, Shazia Mushtaq, Sachin Sarode, Rodolfo Reda, Shankargouda Patil, Luca Testarelli   +13 more
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An anatomical perspective on clinicopathological characteristics and treatment outcomes of dorsal and ventrolateral tongue leukoplakia after carbon dioxide laser surgery

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, Yun-Shien Lee, Liang-Che Chang, Cheng-Han Yang, Cheng-Ming Luo   +4 more
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A comparative investigation of the activity of superoxide dismutase in patients with leukoplakia and healthy controls

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, Esther Anuradha Sunil, Sindhu Edakkadath Raghavan, Binitha Ponnamparambil Purushothaman   +3 more
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Study of Caspase 8 mutation in oral cancer and adjacent precancer tissues and implication in progression.

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, Shreya Das, Sila Datta, Anjana Mazumdar, Nidhan K Biswas, Arindam Maitra, Partha P Majumder, Sandip Ghose, Bidyut Roy   +8 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, CANNELLA, FABIANA, Ciolfi, Chiara, GENTILE, Massimo, PALAIA, GASPARE, PIERANGELI, Alessandra, POLIMENI, Antonella, ROMEO, Umberto, RUSSO, CLAUDIA, SCAGNOLARI, CAROLINA, SCIANDRA, ILARIA   +10 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, Narges Ghazi, Abdollah Javan rashid, Mohammad Ebrahimi   +3 more
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CO2 lasers in the management of potentially malignant and malignant oral disorders [PDF]

, 2012
The CO2 laser was invented in 1963 by Kumar Patel. Since the early 1970s, CO2 laser has proved to be an effective method of treatment for patients with several types of oral lesions, including early squamous cell carcinoma.
Hamdoon, Z, Hopper, C, Jerjes, W
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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, Sivakumar Pradeep, GVV Giri, Malathi Narasimhan   +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., Langman, Michael J., Mehanna, Hisham M., Nankivell, Paul   +3 more
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