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ArticleHealth science reports2023

Investigating the factors proposed in oral lichen planus malignant transformation: A literature review.

Farzaneh Agha-Hosseini, Mahdieh-Sadat Moosavi, Mahdieh Ghaffarpour

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Article in Health science reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical Features of Oral Lichen Planus: A Pictorial and Systematic Review.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Farzaneh Agha-HosseiniDental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.
Mahdieh-Sadat MoosaviDental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.
Mahdieh GhaffarpourDepartment of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-2021-3607
Tehran University of Medical Sciences · IRIranian Academy of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background and Aims: Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects about 1% of the world's population. The World Health Organization has included oral lichen planus among potentially malignant disorders. Identification of reliable biomarkers for the diagnosis of malignant transformation may play a unique role in the development of standard screening and improvement of follow-up in patients with oral precancerous lesions. It is currently assumed that the molecular pathways controlling growth, maturation, proliferation, and apoptosis in epithelial cells may play an important role in the process of transformation into malignancy. Methods: The search was done in PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, Embase, and Cochrane databases from 1960 to 2022. Results: Based on the inclusion criteria, 23 articles were included. Conclusion: In this review of articles, 34 different biomarkers that have been investigated in studies for the possibility of malignant transformation in OLP have been studied. Among all the risk factors related to malignant transformation, most studies have been done on the role of cytokines and tumor suppressors, in fact, the chronicity of the lesion which is the result of the reaction between the repair and the inflammatory response and the responses accompanied by the secretion of cytokines, may play a major role in the malignant transformation of OLP.

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lichen planusmalignancymalignant transformationoral lichen planus

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PMID37205932
PMCPMC10189866
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