Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia: A Need for Its Diagnostic Acumen
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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” correlation. Because histopathologically it varies from an epithelial hyperplasia with hyperkeratosis to oral squamous cell carcinoma(OSCC) and variants of OSCC, whereas clinically it might vary from a simple homogenous white patch to an aggressive appearance of carcinoma. This leads to a diagnostic dilemma. One of the aspects elaborated in this paper is relation between PVL and field cancerization. With the detailed review of literature the present paper focuses on a case which came to the department.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016