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ArticleClinical oral investigations2022

Effect of clinical and histologic features on time to malignancy in 224 cases of oral leukoplakia treated by surgery.

Jose Bagan, Miguel Martorell, Jose L Cebrián, Andrea Rubert, Leticia Bagán, Carlos Mezquida, David Hervás

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Article in Clinical oral investigations, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Predicting Malignant Transformation in Oral Epithelial Dysplasia: A Systematic Comparison of Artificial Intelligence-Based Risk Models and Pathologist-Based Microscopy.Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology · 2026
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  4. A Clinicopathological Study of Marginal Gingival Leukoplakia.Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jose BaganDeparment of Stomatology, Valencia University, C/ Gasco Oliag 1, 46010, Valencia, Spain. bagan@uv.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0295-2916
Miguel MartorellUniversity General Hospital, Valencia, Spain.
Jose L CebriánHospital Universitario la Paz, Madrid, Spain.
Andrea RubertUniversidad Europea de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Leticia BagánValencia University, Valencia, Spain.
Carlos MezquidaUniversity General Hospital, Valencia, Spain.
David HervásDepartment of Applied Statistics, Operational Research and Quality, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain. daherma@eio.upv.es.
Universitat de València · ESHospital General Universitario De Valencia · ESHospital Universitario La Paz · ESUniversitat Politècnica de València · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesOur main purpose and research question were to analyze and quantify whether there were significant differences in the time to develop cancer among patients with oral leukoplakia (OL), comparing the more susceptible cases to those with the least susceptibility to malignancy. MATERIALS AND

methodsWe followed 224 cases of OL after surgical or CO

resultsHistology type (moderate or severe dysplasia) and tongue location showed hazard ratios (HR) of 3.19 (95% CI [1.05-8.59]) and 4.78 (95% CI [1.6-16.61]), respectively. Both variables increased the risk of malignant transformation, thus identifying a susceptible subpopulation with reduced time required to develop cancer, as with non-homogeneous leukoplakias. The median time for cancer development was 4 years and 5 months, with a minimum of 9 months after the diagnosis of OL and a maximum of 15 years and 2 months.

conclusionsSusceptible patients with non-homogeneous leukoplakia, dysplasia, or leukoplakia in the tongue develop cancer earlier than those with homogeneous OL and those without dysplasia. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The novel contribution of this research is that, until now, the time it took for oral leukoplakias to develop cancer based on whether they were homogeneous or non-homogeneous, and if they have or not epithelial dysplasia, had not been comparatively described and quantified. As a final result, the time to malignant transformation in non-homogeneous and dysplastic leukoplakias is significantly shorter.

Indexed as

Lasers, GasLeukoplakia, OralBayes TheoremCell Transformation, NeoplasticHumansHyperplasiaEvolutionMalignancyOral leukoplakia

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PMID35474554
PMCPMC9381619
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