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Oral leukoplakias are oral potentially malignant disorders in which toluidine blue can be used to identify important sites to be performed a biopsy as these sites could show epithelial dysplasia.Thirteen patients with white patches located in the oral mucosa were included in this study. Thus, to determine sites that could show epithelial dysplasia, toluidin blue was used on the leukoplakias to better...
Actinic Cheilitis (AC) is a premalignant lesion related to chronic solar exposure of low lip. Thus, it may change to Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC). In this study, we purpose to evaluate VEGF and Factor VIII in SCC displaying AC in order to contribute to the knowledge of the lip carcinogenesis.Thirty-four cases of SCCL displaying AC were analyzed. These cases were graded according to WHO (2005) and...