The relevance of uniform reporting in oral leukoplakia: Definition, certainty factor and staging based on experience with 275 patients

Medicina Oral, Patologia Oral y Cirugia Bucal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brouns, Elisabeth REA ^a   Baart, Jacques A ^a   Bloemena, Elisabeth ^a   Karagozoglu, Hakki ^a   van der Waal, Isaäc ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Oral epithelial dysplasia; Oral leukoplakia; Potentially malignant oral disorders

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOPLAKIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUTH EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871916874     PISSN: 16984447     EISSN: 16986946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4317/medoral.18756     Document Type: Article

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