Oral erythroplakia and oral erythroplakia-like oral squamous cell carcinoma - what's the difference?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oral erythroplakia (OE) is a rare oral potentially malignant disorder, that has a high rate of malignant transformation. The definition of OE still lacks uniformity. In particular, lesions that look clinically like erythroplakias, but are histopathologically diagnosed as squamous cell carcinomas are still sometimes called erythroplakias. The purpose of this study is to present demographic and clinicopathologic features of a series of OEs and clinically oral erythroplakia -like squamous cell carcinomas (OELSCC), to study their differences and to discuss the definition of OE.

Methods

A multicenter retrospective case series of OEs and OELSCCs. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data.

Results

11 cases of OEs and 9 cases of OELSCCs were identified.

SUBMITTER: Ohman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10644603 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature