title: Desquamative gingivitis: a clinical, histopathologic, and immunologic study.
abstract: Desquamative gingivitis is believed to be a clinical sign of certain mucocutaneous diseases rather than a distinct pathologic entity. The prevalence of desquamative gingivitis was studied in a group of patients with the most common mucocutaneous diseases. Of 414 patients with pemphigus vulgaris, mucous membrane pemphigoid, or oral lichen planus, 49 (11.8%) exhibited gingival lesions in the form of desquamative gingivitis. Desquamative gingivitis was most prevalent in the patients with mucous membrane pemphigoid (41.6%) followed by those with pemphigus vulgaris (9.1%). Other clinical characteristics, as well as histopathologic and immunohistochemical findings, that aid in early diagnosis are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Medicine and Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Dentistry, Greece.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Markopoulos
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Antoniades
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Papanayotou
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Trigonidis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005891:Gingivitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D017676:Lichen Planus, Oral / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010390:Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane / Q000150:complications; D010392:Pemphigus / Q000150:complications; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies