ReviewDentistry journal2019
Oral White Lesions: An Updated Clinical Diagnostic Decision Tree.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 101 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dyskeratosis Congenita and Squamous Cell Cancer of the Head and Neck: A Case Report and Systematic Review.The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology · 2022Pooled it
- Epstein-Barr virus and oral health: epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical aspects, and diagnostic insights: a narrative review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Review
- Awareness and intended behavioral responses to oral potentially malignant disorders: an image-based assessment among dental clinic attendees in Jordan.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Available Evidence on the Diagnostic Accuracy of Chemiluminescence for Detecting Dysplasia or Malignant Transformation in Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders (OPMDs): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Contemporary Classification and Diagnostic Pathways for Common Gingival and Alveolar Ridge Lesions.International journal of dentistry · 2026Review
- Oral and maxillofacial manifestations of COVID-19.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2026Review
- The Current State of Clinical Diagnostic Algorithms for Mucosal Oral Lesions: A Scoping Review.Oral diseases · 2025Article
- Performance of deep learning models for the classification and object detection of different oral white lesions using photographic images.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Common white lesions of the oral cavity: Review of clinical presentations and management.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025Review
- Convolutional neural network for oral cancer detection combined with improved tunicate swarm algorithm to detect oral cancer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Evaluation of salivary transferrin in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2024Article
- A Rare Clinical Case of Oral White Sponge Nevus and the Associated Challenges in Its Differential Diagnosis.Case reports in dentistry · 2024Article
- Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia: A Diagnostic Challenge in a Clinical and Histopathological Context-With Reflections on the Health Reality in Brazil.Case reports in dentistry · 2024Article
- Reconstructive Therapy of an Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumor Associated with an Erupted Maxillary Lateral Incisor: Report of a Rare Case : a Rare Case in Reconstructive Therapy of an Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumor.Galen medical journal · 2024Article
- Oral findings in patients with cartilage-hair hypoplasia - cross-sectional observational study.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2023Observational
- Oral chemical ulceration due to iatrogenic hydraulic oil leakage from the dental unit of a surgical handpiece: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2023Article
- Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Classification of Elementary Oral Lesions from Clinical Images.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Exfoliative Cytology and Genetic Analysis for a Non-Invasive Approach to the Diagnosis of White Sponge Nevus: Case Series.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Diagnosis of oral white lesions might be quite challenging. This review article aimed to introduce a decision tree for oral white lesions according to their clinical features. General search engines and specialized databases including PubMed, PubMed Central, EBSCO, Science Direct, Scopus, Embase, and authenticated textbooks were used to find relevant topics by means of MeSH keywords such as "mouth disease", "oral keratosis", "oral leukokeratosis", and "oral leukoplakia". Related English-language articles published since 2000 to 2017, including reviews, meta-analyses, and original papers (randomized or nonrandomized clinical trials; prospective or retrospective cohort studies), case reports, and case series about oral diseases were appraised. Upon compilation of data, oral white lesions were categorized into two major groups according to their nature of development: Congenital or acquired lesions and four subgroups: Lesions which can be scraped off or not and lesions with the special pattern or not. In total, more than 20 entities were organized in the form of a decision tree in order to help clinicians establish a logical diagnosis by a stepwise progression method.
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