Reviewing oral leukoplakia: clinical concepts for the 1990s.
Microscopic evidence of dysplasia is not necessary to diagnose leukoplakia. Rather leukoplakia is clinically diagnosed not so much by defining appearances as by excluding other lesions also appearing as oral white plaques.
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Department of Oral Pathology, West Virginia University School of Dentistry, Morgantown 26506.
D000328:Adult; D002176:Candida albicans; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007972:Leukoplakia, Oral / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D027383:Papillomaviridae; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects