Patients with oral cancer developing from pre-existing oral leukoplakia: Do they do better than those with de novo oral cancer?

Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 134-136

  Weijers, Manon ^a   Ten Hove, Ivo ^a   Allard, Remy H B ^a   Bezemer, Dick P D ^a   Van Der Waal, Isaäc ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Oral cancer; Oral leukoplakia; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEUKOPLAKIA; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38749117225     PISSN: 09042512     EISSN: 16000714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.2007.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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