title: [Clinical and pathological analysis of 8 patients with oral candidiasis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical and pathological diagnosis of oral candidiasis and reduce misdiagnosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  The medical records of 8 patients with oral candidiasis were reviewed retrospectively, HE and PAS staining of histopathology were applied to study the specimens.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was found that oral candidiasis were identified by pathological diagnosis, but weren't considered clinically. Minor abscesses were all detected in the epithelium of conventional histopathologic sections, the hyphae were shown by PAS staining invading the epithelium.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results suggest that candidal infections should be considered, if there are hyperplastic or ulcerative lesions which last for long time; when minor abscesses are detected in the epithelium by histopathologic examination, oral candidiasis should be highly suspected, and be confirmed by PAS staining.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Affiliated Stomatological Hospital, Nanchang University. Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China. peijingzi@163.com
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pei
authors.forename: Xia-Yang
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Zhuo
authors.forename: Yun-Xiang
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Jia
mesh_terms: D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000209:etiology; D019226:Oral Ulcer / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies