DIAGNOSTIC ASPECTS OF LEUKOPLAKIA

Diagnostic criteria in proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: Evaluation

OBJECTIVES to evaluate the ability of the diagnostic criteria proposed by Cerero et al in 2010 to perform an early diagnose in patients with proliferative verrucous leukoplakia. STUDY DESIGN retrospective study with patients diagnosed with leukoplakia at Oral Medicine Service at Oral Medicine and Surgery Department at Dentistry Faculty at Universidad Complutense of Madrid. RESULTS the crite...

Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia--diagnostic pitfalls and suggestions.

Ocular Lymphoma: Clinical, Diagnostic, and Therapeutic Aspects

Ocular involvement in lymphoma is a relatively rare condition that can result from a primary intraocular lymphoma or an intraocular manifestation of systemic lymphoma. Lymphoma manifestations frequently masquerade as other more benign intraocular conditions including allergic or infectious conjunctivitis, uveitis, multiple evanescent white dot syndrome, acute retinal necrosis, or herpetic retin...

Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia; a critical appraisal of the diagnostic criteria

Since its introduction in the literature in 1985, the term proliferative verrucous leukoplakia (PVL) has been the subject of an ongoing discussion with regard to its definition. Widespread or multifocal occurrence of oral leukoplakia is not just synonymous to PVL. In the present treatise the proposal is made to require the involvement of more than two oral oral subsites, a total added seizeof t...

Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia: A Need for Its Diagnostic Acumen

In day today practice we see multiple numbers of cases of white lesions in the oral cavity; oral leukoplakia is one of prevalent white lesion.Proliferative verrucousleukoplakia(PVL) is exceptional and aggressive type of oral leukoplakia.A multifocal or diffuse extension makes the lesion inscrutable. In case of proliferative verrucous leukoplakia it is important to give a “clinicopathological” c...