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Oral leukoplakia and erythroplakia in young patients: a southern Brazilian multicenter study [PDF]

Brazilian Oral Research
The objective of the present study was to investigate the frequency of oral leukoplakia and oral erythroplakia among young patients from three Brazilian reference centers in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.
Alini Cardoso SOARES, Ana Paula Neutzling GOMES, Camila Barcellos CALDERIPE, Fernanda Gonçalves SALUM, Karen CHERUBINI, Manoela Domingues MARTINS, Lauren Frenzel SCHUCH, Laura Borges KIRSCHNICK, Lucas Guimarães ABREU, Alan Roger SANTOS-SILVA, Ana Carolina Uchoa VASCONCELOS   +10 more
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Genotyping Candida albicans from Candida leukoplakia and non-Candida leukoplakia shows no enrichment of multilocus sequence typing clades but enrichment of ABC genotype C in Candida leukoplakia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Oral leukoplakias are histopathologically-diagnosed as Candida leukoplakia or non-Candida leukoplakia by the presence or absence of hyphae in the superficial epithelium.
Mohammed H Abdulrahim, Brenda A McManus, Stephen R Flint, David C Coleman   +3 more
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Cigarette smoking as a risk factor associated with oral leukoplakia [PDF]

Archive of Oncology, 2002
BACKGROUND: It is well known that oral leukoplakia is the most common precancerous lesion of the oral mucosa. Although tobacco and alcohol are known to be major risk factors for oral leukoplakia worldwide, there are no data on risk factors for oral ...
Bokor-Bratić Marija, Vučković Nada
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Prevalence of recurrent aphthous stomatitis, oral submucosal fibrosis and oral leukoplakia in doctor/nurse and police officer population

BMC Oral Health, 2022
Background The doctor/nurse and police officer population have some common typical characteristics of great professional pressure and night shift and past studies indicated oral mucosa lesions were closely associated with psychological factors and health-
Yundong Liu, Mi He, Tao Yin, Ziran Zheng, Changyun Fang, Shifang Peng   +5 more
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Malignant transformation rate of oral leukoplakia: A meta analysis

Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2020
Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma is the most common form of head and neck cancer which is sometimes preceded by potentially malignant disorders such as leukoplakia.
P Ramaswamy, Ch Sai Kiran, B Mrudula Raju, Munipati Swathi Kiranmai   +3 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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Estimation of Circulating Immune Complexes in patients with Oral Leukoplakia and Oral Submucous Fibrosis: A Case Control Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014
Purpose of the Study: The present study was conducted to estimate the serum levels of Circulating Immune Complexes in patients with Oral Leukoplakia ,Oral sub mucous fibrosis and normal subjects and correlate these values with the clinical grades of ...
Maheswari H., Eswaran M.A., Srividhya S., Malavika R., Prabhu R., Geetha K.R.   +5 more
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Oral Manifestations of HIV Infection in Children and Adults Receiving Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy [HAART] in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania [PDF]

, 2006
The aim of the study was to compare the prevalence and types of HIV-related oral lesions between children and adult Tanzanian patients on HAART with those not on HAART and to relate the occurrence of the lesions with anti-HIV drug regimen, clinical stage
Simon, Elison NM, Matee, M.I.N, Mikx, F.H., Simon, E.N., Verweij Paul E, JAM van der Ven, André, Mugusi, F, Paul E Verweij, Mugusi Ferdinand, Simon Elison NM, Verweij, P.E, Moshi, M.J., Verweij, P.E., Moshi Mainen J, Simon, E.N.M, Simon, Elison N M, André JAM van der Ven, Matee, Mecky I N, Moshi, M.J, Kikwilu, Emil, Mecky IN Matee, Mikx, Frans H M, Matee, M.I., Omar JM Hamza, Hamza, Omar JM, Moshi, Mainen J, Matee, Mecky IN, Van der Ven, A.J., Kikwilu Emil, Kikwilu, E., Mugusi, F., van der Ven, André J A M, Mainen J Moshi, Frans HM Mikx, Verweij, Paul E, Mikx, F.H.M, Ferdinand Mugusi, Mugusi, Ferdinand, Hamza, Omar J M, Emil Kikwilu, van der Ven André JAM, Hamza, OJ., Hamza, O.J.M, Elison NM Simon, Mikx Frans HM, Matee Mecky IN, Hamza Omar JM, Mikx, Frans HM   +47 more
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Effect of smoking status and programmed death-ligand 1 expression on the microenvironment and malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia: A retrospective cohort study.

PLoS 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, Naoki Funayama, Mitsuhiko Imada, Tadaaki Kirita   +3 more
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A clinical diagnosis of oral leukoplakia : a guide for dentists [PDF]

, 2017
In view of the many white or predominantly white lesions of the oral mucosa it is a challenge for dentists to clinically identify a leukoplakia, being a potentially (pre)malignant lesion.
Carrard, V.C., Waal, Isaäc Van der, van der Waal, I., van der Waal, Isaäc, VC Carrard, I van der Waal, Carrard, Vinicius C.   +6 more
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