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Biopsy for Suspicious Oral Lesions: A Review From the American Head and Neck Society‐Cancer Prevention Service

open access: yesHead &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Oral cancer is often preceded by a precursor lesion. This presents an opportunity for early diagnosis and intervention. Method of biopsy and interpretation are not well standardized and novel methods of analysis are now being investigated.
James Christopher Gates   +12 more
wiley   +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

Hairy Tongue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Hairy tongue (lingua villosa) is a commonly observed condition of defective desquamation of the filiform papillae that results from a variety of precipitating factors. [1] The condition is most frequently referred to as black hairy tongue (lingua villosa
Burgess, Jeff   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Diagnostic criteria in proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Objectives: to evaluate the ability of the diagnostic criteria proposed by Cerero et al in 2010 to perform an early diagnose in patients with proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.
Casado De La Cruz, Laura   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Gastrointestinal strictures in a pediatric patient with Satoyoshi syndrome

open access: yesJPGN Reports, EarlyView.
Abstract We present a novel case of gastrointestinal strictures in a young girl with Satoyoshi syndrome (SS), highlighting multi‐system features of alopecia universalis, painful muscle cramps with dystonia, aberrant growth velocity, and skeletal abnormalities.
Katherine (Tusia) Pohoreski   +5 more
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

The prognostic role of VEGF in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Emerging from potentially malignant disorders that in most cases will never become cancerous, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a cancer that is extremely difficult to diagnose early.
Mathew, Rohit Thomas
core  

Oral leukoplakia treatment with the carbon dioxide laser: A systematic review of the literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We conducted a systematic review of the literature to evaluate treatment of oral leukoplakia with the carbon dioxide (CO2) laser. A comprehensive search of studies published between 1981 and 2015 and listed in the PubMed (National Library of Medicine ...
Bescós-Atín, Coro   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Longitudinal Analysis of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorder Conversion to Malignancy

open access: yesThe Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) are local and systemic conditions that can result in oral malignancies. We have had an OPMD surveillance program for 25 years covering over 30% of our state's population. More recent electronic health record search techniques have allowed us to analyze over 1500 patients in over a 10‐year
Benjamin Palatnik   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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