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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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Oral Leukoplakia as It Relates to HPV Infection: A Review
International Journal of Dentistry, 2012 Leukoplakia is the most common potentially malignant lesion of the oral cavity and can be categorised according to its clinical appearance as homogeneous or nonhomogenous. Tobacco and areca nut use, either alone or in combination are the most common risk
L. Feller, J. Lemmer
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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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Fractal analysis in oral leukoplakia
Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2015 Introduction: Fractal analysis (FA) quantifies complex geometric structures by generating a fractal dimension (FD), which can measure the complexity of mucosa.
Prashant Bhai Pandey +5 more
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Evaluation of COX-2, EGFR, and p53 as biomarkers of non-dysplastic oral leukoplakias [PDF]
, 2010 [Abstract] Objective. Identify candidate SEBs (surrogate endpoint biomarkers) for premalignant trends in head and neck mucosa. Study design. Study, by qPCR (quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction), the expression of COX-2, EGFR and p53 in 24 ...
Antón-Aparicio, Luis M. +6 more
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