Verrucous carcinoma in association with oral submucous fibrosis
Author(s) -
C Pravda,
D. Koteeswaran,
H Srinivasan,
L Arathy Manohar
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.90329
Subject(s) - oral submucous fibrosis , verrucous carcinoma , medicine , leukoplakia , carcinoma , basal cell , etiology , dermatology , precancerous condition , pathology , cancer
Oral verrucous carcinoma is a form of well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma characterized by exophytic over growth. It is slow growing and locally invasive tumor occurring in 6 th and 7 th decade of life. Smoking and chewing tobacco is found to be the most common etiological factor of verrucous carcinoma although oral leukoplakia may act as a predisposing factor. This is a rare case of oral varrucous Carcinoma seen in association with oral submucous fibrosis in a younger patient with long standing history of chewing tobacco
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