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Potentially malignant oral lesions

Potentially malignant oral lesions

Paperback

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 6208580293
ISBN13: 9786208580292
Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
Published: Jan 23 2025
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Diagnosis of oral lesions is based on an accurate history and clinical examination, as well as further investigations. The toluidine blue test, cytological examination and biopsy are the most common. The now obsolete toluidine blue test looks for the presence of atypical, nucleic acid-rich cells that strongly absorb the dye. Cytological examination, or exfoliative cytology, is performed on a sample obtained by scraping epithelial cells spread out on a slide. This easy-to-perform technique is indicated for lesions such as candidiasis or bullous lesions, but not for precancerous lesions, due to the many false negatives. Only biopsy, which provides a histopathological study of the tissue removed for diagnostic purposes, remains the reference examination.

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