The complexity of the oral mucosa: A review of the use of fractal geometry

Control Engineering and Applied Informatics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-14

  Eid, Rasha Abu ^a   Landini, Gabriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epithelial dysplasia; Oral mucosa; Pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952986821     PISSN: 14548658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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