Leukoplakia and intraoral malignancies: Female cases increase in Greece

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-27

  Zavras, A I ^a   Laskaris, C ^b   Kittas, C ^c   Laskaris, G ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Belgrade   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Age; Cancer; Epithelial; Gender; Leukoplakia; Lymphoma; Non Hodgkin's; Oral

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CHEEK MUCOSA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; GINGIVA TUMOR; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOPLAKIA; LIP CARCINOMA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PALATE DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; VERRUCOUS CARCINOMA;

AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOMA, VERRUCOUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037259559     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2003.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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