Malignant Transformation Of Oral Leukoplakia: An Asian Scenario
Journal Title: Journal of Advanced Medical and Dental Sciences Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 8
Abstract
Oral leukoplakia is the most common potentially malignant disorder of the oral mucosa. The prevalence increases with age, ranging from less than 1% in men under age 30 years to 8 % in men and women over age 70 years. There may be several routes to malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia, including transformations induced by carcinogenesis due to betel quid chewing or smoking, or by HPV infection. The only significant factors associated with it are clinical type and size of lesion. Although epithelial dysplasia is an important predictive factor of malignant transformation, it should be realized that not all dysplastic lesions will become malignant. This systemic review presents a retrograde analysis of malignant transformation of leukoplakia in the Asian scenario. The review was undertaken to address the objective of demographic and clinicopathologic factors involved in malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia
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Preetinder Kaur, Tejkanwar Singh, Sangeeta Kour
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