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ReviewJournal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences2017

A Clinicopathological Study of Various Oral Cancer Diagnostic Techniques.

G Ulaganathan, K Thanvir Mohamed Niazi, Soundarya Srinivasan, V R Balaji, D Manikandan, K A Shahul Hameed, A Banumathi

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Review in Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

G UlaganathanDepartment of Oral Surgery, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Pulloor, Kariapatti, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
K Thanvir Mohamed NiaziDepartment of Oral Surgery, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Pulloor, Kariapatti, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Soundarya SrinivasanDepartment of Oral Pathology, Best Dental Science College, Pulloor, Kariapatti, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
V R BalajiDepartment of Periodontics, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Pulloor, Kariapatti, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
D ManikandanDepartment of Periodontics, CSI College of Dental Sciences and Research, Pulloor, Kariapatti, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
K A Shahul HameedDepartment of ECE, Sethu Institute of Technology, Pulloor, Kariapatti, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
A BanumathiDepartment of ECE, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral cancer is one of the most commonly occurring malignant tumors in the head and neck regions with high incident rate and mortality rate in the developed countries than in the developing countries. Generally, the survival rate of cancer patients may increase when diagnosed at early stage, followed by prompt treatment and therapy. Recently, cancer diagnosis and therapy design for a specific cancer patient have been performed with the advanced computer-aided techniques. The responses of the cancer therapy could be continuously monitored to ensure the effectiveness of the treatment process that hardly requires diagnostic result as quick as possible to improve the quality and patient care. This paper gives an overview of oral cancer occurrence, different types, and various diagnostic techniques. In addition, a brief introduction is given to various stages of immunoanalysis including tissue image preparation, whole slide imaging, and microscopic image analysis.

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Biomarkerhistopathologyimmunohistochemistrymicroscopic image analysiswhole-slide imaging

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PMID29284926
PMCPMC5731041

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