Oral Hairy Leukoplakia: Clinicopathologic Features, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Clinical Significance
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Oral hairy leukoplakia: clinicopathologic features, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and clinical significance.
Oral hairy leukoplakia (OHL) is a lesion frequently, although not exclusively, observed in patients infected by human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV). OHL is clinically characterized by bilateral, often elevated, white patches of the lateral borders and dorsum of the tongue. Histologically, there is profound acanthosis, sometimes with koilocytic changes, and a lack of a notable inflammatory infi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/516131