1. Identificación del papilomavirus humano en la leucoplasia bucal.
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Estrada Pereira, Gladys Aída, Filiu, Maricel Márquez, Álvarez, Galina Hernández, and Noriega-Roldán, Silvana Oliveros
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PAPILLOMAVIRUS disease diagnosis , *ORAL leukoplakia , *CROSS-sectional method , *HISTOPATHOLOGY , *DYSPLASIA , *SECONDARY care (Medicine) - Abstract
With the purpose of evaluating the results of the clinical and histopathological diagnosis of the human papilomavirus associated with oral leukoplakia, a descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 75 patients with this condition, who were treated at the Stomatology Department of the Polyclinic of Specialties from "Saturnino Lora" Provincial Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital of Santiago de Cuba, from September 2009 to the same month of 2012. Biopsies were taken from patients to detect the presence of koilocytes producing chorion and epithelial changes in damaged tissue, as well as their topographic location. Male sex, buccal mucosa as the anatomical site of highest incidence and epithelial dysplasia as the most significant prevailed in the case material. Likewise, the loss of the nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio and hyperplasia of the basal layer were the most frequent tissue alterations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013