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Comprehensive mutation analysis of PIK3CA, p14ARF, p16INK4a and p21Waf1/Cip1 genes is suggestive of a non- neoplastic nature of phenytoin induced gingival overgrowth.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 1 Jan 2013
Swamikannu Bhuminathan, Kumar Kishore S, Jayesh Raghavendra S, Rajendran Senthilnathan, Muthupalani Rajendran Shanmugam, Ramanathan Arvind
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BACKGROUND: Dilantin sodium (phenytoin) is an antiepileptic drug, which is routinely used to control generalized tonic clonic seizure and partial seizure episodes. A few case reports of oral squamous cell carcinomas arising from regions of phenytoin induced gingival overgrowth (GO), and overexpression of mitogenic factors and p53 have presented this condition as a pathology with potential to transform into...
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