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Evaluation of salivary Chemerin in oral leukoplakia, oral squamous cell carcinoma and healthy controls

open access: yesJournal of Orofacial Sciences, 2023
Introduction: Chemerin is a multifunctional chemoattractant cytokine, encoded by RARRES2 gene. Its role in oral carcinogenesis is largely unexplored. Study was undertaken to evaluate the role of salivary chemerin as a potential biomarker in the early ...
Karthika Pradeep Susha, Rathy Ravindran
doaj   +1 more source

Multi‐Institutional Assessment of Dental Students' Knowledge in Oral Soft Tissue Pathological Entities

open access: yesJournal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study provides a descriptive, multi‐institutional comparison of dental students' recognition accuracy and management decisions of oral soft tissue pathological entities across four US dental schools. While prior single‐institution studies have evaluated diagnostic ability, this work provides a multi‐institutional comparison to ...
Nicole McKee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oral Leukoplakia: Diagnosis And Management Revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The definition of oral leukoplakia has not much changed during the past five decades and is still a definition by exclusion of ‘known’ lesions. Therefore, a diagnosis of leukoplakia is not always a straightforward one for the clinicians and, to some ...
Isaäc van der Waal   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Expression of CD44 and SALL4 in Leukoplakia and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

open access: yesJournal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences
CD44 and SALL4 are markers of stemness and expressed in cancer stem cells (CSCs). Their deregulated expression was seen in various tumors and has been correlated with clinical severity.
Sahoo Pravudeva   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of smoking status and programmed death-ligand 1 expression on the microenvironment and malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia: A retrospective cohort study.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Tobacco smoking is associated with an increased risk of oral leukoplakia and head and neck cancer. Although it has recently been reported that the establishment of an immunosuppressive microenvironment in oral potentially malignant disorders may lead to ...
Takahiro Yagyuu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nail Disorders in Systemic Conditions

open access: yesJEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nail findings in children can be indicative of an underlying systemic disease. Many of these findings are seen in multiple entities and are not specific to one disease. The importance of specifically examining for these nail changes cannot be overstated.
Jane Sanders Bellet
wiley   +1 more source

Nail Lichen Planus in Children ‐ Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Clinical Presentation, and Treatment

open access: yesJEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nail lichen planus (NLP) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that, while rare in children compared to adults, represents a significant cause of pediatric nail dystrophy that requires early recognition to prevent permanent scarring and nail loss.
Francesca Pampaloni, Matilde Iorizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic and clinicopathological comparison among oral lichen planus, lichenoid lesions and proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: a retrospective study

open access: yesBMC Oral Health
Background Clinicopathological diagnosis and follow-up of oral lichen planus and leukoplakia are necessary due to its potential for malignant transformation and the need to differentiate it from other lichenoid diseases and proliferative verrucous ...
Milena Duarte Moreira   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voice change: a differential diagnostic sign for leukoplakia?

open access: yesTurkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2008
Objectives:In this study, the acoustic changes in leukoplakia and acoustic similarities between leukoplakia and chronic laryngitis were investigated and they are compared with nondysphonic control group.Methods:26 chronic laryngitis patients, 23 males ...
Tolga Kandoğan
doaj   +1 more source

Inhomogeneity of stiffness and density of the extracellular matrix within the leukoplakia of human oral mucosa as potential physicochemical factors leading to carcinogenesis

open access: yesTranslational Oncology, 2021
Oral leukoplakia is a clinical term relating to various morphological lesions, including squamous cell hyperplasia, dysplasia and carcinoma. Leukoplakia morphologically manifested as hyperplasia with epithelial dysplasia is clinically treated as ...
Katarzyna Pogoda   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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