Nandi, Sourabh Mandal, Amitabha Chhebbi, Madiwalesh
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Cancer treatment and research communications
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) pose a great danger to society and now we have shreds of evidence for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) being one of the major causative agents for it. Though the prevalence of HPV varies throughout the world, it is gradually on the rise. The present systematic review aims to retrospect all the available studi...
Algadi, Hana’a Hezam Abou-Bakr, Amany Abd-Elhameed Jamali, Omer Mohammed Fathy, Louloua Mohamed
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BMC Cancer
BackgroundWhen the resected specimen is sent for intraoperative margin assessment, all margins are grossly checked, and selected margins undergo a frozen section (FS) examination. Therefore, there is a possibility of sampling error. This study evaluated the effectiveness of using toluidine blue (TB) as an intraoperative triage screening tool to det...
Chaturvedi, Pankaj Lerra, Sandeep Ustad, Farheen Pai, Prathamesh S Chaukar, Devendra A D'Cruz, Anil K
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Ear, nose, & throat journal
Among the reconstructive options available for buccal mucosa defects with an intact mandible, free flap with microvascular anastomosis is the best option. However, in the developing world, with poor resources, limited in- frastructure, and high patient load, this cannot be offered to all patients. We report on the success of the masseter flap for r...
Nikolovski, Bruno Monevska, Danica Popovik Popovska, Mirjana Nikolovska, Vera Radojkova Minovska, Ana
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Balkan Journal of Dental Medicine
Background/Aim: Oral cancer is one of the ten most common cancers in the world, recently positioned as a sixth one, unfortunately with poor prognosis after treatment because of the late diagnostics in advanced stages of the disease. Aim of this study was to present the basic criteria in assessment the accuracy/efficacy, specificity and sensitivity,...
Hadžić, Sanja Gojkov-Vukelić, Mirjana Pašić, Enes Muharemović, Arma Jahić, Indira Mujić
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Balkan Journal of Dental Medicine
Background/Aim: Potentially malignant oral lesions (PMOL) are lesions that have an increased risk of malignant transformation concerning healthy oral mucosa. This research aimed to assess the knowledge of students of final years of study on the potentially malignant lesions of the oral cavity. Material and Methods: 120 students of the fourth and fi...
Arias Ramos, Deving Alzate, John Alexander Giraldo Montoya, Ángela María Trujillo, Yessica Andrea Arias Ramos, Leidy Yurany
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundParacoccidioidomycosis is a neglected tropical disease, endemic in several countries of South America including Colombia. We report a case of a patient with Chronic Multifocal Paracoccidioidomycosis with long-standing symptoms and a delayed diagnosis caused by several barriers to achieve it. We did a review of the papers published in Colo...
Lin, Yu-Wei Huang, Shih-Tsung Wu, Jian-Ching Chu, Tian-Huei Huang, Shih-Chung Lee, Ching-Chih Tai, Ming-Hong
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BMC Cancer
BackgroundHepatoma-derived growth factor (HDGF) participates in angiogenesis and represents a negative prognostic factor in oral cancer. The current study was designed to elucidate the regulatory mechanism between HDGF and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and the clinical impact of oral cancer.MethodsTCGA data and surgical samples from ora...
Chowdhury, Farshad N. Reisinger, Julie Gomez, Karina E. Chimed, Tugs-Saikhan Thomas, Carissa M. Le, Phuong N. Miller, Bettina Morton, John J. Nieto, Cera M. Somerset, Hilary L.
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Oral oncology
Objectives: To describe differences in cancer stem cell (CSC) presence and behavior associated with their intratumor compartment of origin using a patient-derived xenograft (PDX) model of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC). Materials and Methods: Four HPV-negative OCSCC PDX cases were selected (CUHN004, CUHN013, CUHN096, CUHN111) and the p...
Mariz, Bruno Augusto Linhares Almeida do Socorro Queiroz Feio, Patricia Roza, Ana Luiza Oliveira Corrêa de Andrade, Bruno Augusto Benevenuto Agostini, Michelle Romañach, Mário José Fonseca, Felipe Paiva Pontes, Helder Antonio Rebelo Ribeiro, Ana Carolina Prado Brandão, Thaís Bianca
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Oral diseases
To establish a predictive clinical index of malignancy risk in palatal salivary gland tumors (PSGT). One hundred cases of PSGT were evaluated. Clinical data were retrieved from the patient's files. Representative clinical photographs of each tumor were evaluated to identify clinical features suggestive of a malignant tumor. Features significantly a...
Abram, Timothy J Floriano, Pierre N James, Robert Kerr, A Ross Thornhill, Martin H Redding, Spencer W Vigneswaran, Nadarajah Raja, Rameez McRae, Michael P McDevitt, John T
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Oral oncology
The diagnosis and management of oral cavity cancers are often complicated by the uncertainty of which patients will undergo malignant transformation, obligating close surveillance over time. However, serial biopsies are undesirable, highly invasive, and subject to inherent issues with poor inter-pathologist agreement and unpredictability as a surro...
