Diascopy: a clinical technique for the diagnosis of vascular lesions.
Dentists can quickly determine the vascular nature of many intraoral lesions by applying a clinical test for blanchability. Such a clinical test is called a diascopy. Described here are the circumstances in which diascopy can be used in a dental practice and what useful information is provided by performing diascopy on oral mucosal lesions.
Rudd
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University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, San Francisco, USA.
Eversole
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Carpenter
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