Rapid progression of an idiopathic leukoplakia to a proliferative verrucous leukoplakia lesion and then squamous cell carcinoma.
The article reports a case of oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia (OPVL) in a 76-year-old woman, underscoring how an otherwise inconspicuous white plaque lesion can rapidly turn into a phase of verrucous carcinoma and subsequently squamous cell carcinoma.
Department of Stomatology, University of São Paulo, Brazil. lumadal@usp.br
Aluana
A
Dal Vechio
Edgar
E
Nakagima
Luciane H
LH
Azevedo
Fábio A
FA
Alves
Dante A
DA
Migliari
D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D018289:Carcinoma, Verrucous / Q000473:pathology*; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007972:Leukoplakia, Oral / Q000473:pathology*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery