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HPV DNA in clinically different variants of oral leukoplakia and lichen planus.
Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology, and endodontics - 1 Dec 2004
Campisi Giuseppina, Giovannelli Lucia, Aricò Pietro, Lama Anna, Di Liberto Chiara, Ammatuna Pietro, D'Angelo Matteo
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to determine the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in oral leukoplakia (OL) and oral lichen planus (OLP) in comparison with that in healthy oral mucosa, also conditionally to age, gender, smoking, and drinking habits of patients, so as to investigate any possible association of HPV infection with a specific clinical variant of OL or OLP. STUDY DESIGN: We did...
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