Open AccessAssessment of oral mucosa in normal, precancer and cancer using chemiluminescent illumination, toluidine blue supravital staining and oral exfoliative cytology
Author(s) -
M Rajmohan,
Umadevi K Rao,
Elizabeth Joshua,
Saraswathy Thillai Rajasekaran,
Kannan Ranganathan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology/journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.455
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1998-393X
pISSN - 0973-029X
DOI - 10.4103/0973-029x.102476
Subject(s) - medicine , pathology , toluidine , exfoliative cytology , cytology , cancer , oral mucosa , staining , biopsy , lesion , dermatology , chemistry
Carcinoma in an early stage of development is hard to detect clinically because the lesion may not be palpable and color of the lesional tissue is not necessarily different from the color of the surrounding mucosa. In order to improve the efficacy of the diagnosis, techniques are being developed to complement clinical examination and to facilitate the identification of initial carcinomas.