CLINICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF ORAL MUCOSAL LEUKOPLAKIA
Keywords:
leukoplakia, flat, verrucous, erosive, optical coherence tomography (OCT).Abstract
Leukoplakia is characterized by a wide variety of clinical manifestations; therefore, its flat, verrucous, and erosive forms are distinguished. Each of these forms is associated with differences in the morphological and morphometric changes of the epithelium. Traditional methods—cytology and biopsy—have long been considered the main diagnostic tools; however, in many cases, they are limited by their invasiveness and the detection of the disease at advanced stages. In recent years, one of the noninvasive methods, optical coherence tomography (OCT), has been introduced into dental practice.
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