The future role for oral exfoliative cytology--bleak or bright?

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The role of exfoliative cytology in the screening for oral cancer has never achieved the same success as it has for diagnosing cancer of the uterine cervix. Yet the recent application of quantitative and immunocytochemical techniques has, to some extent, refined its potential role. However, the absence of a marker, present in all malignant lesions but never seen in benign lesions, limits its clinical utility and...

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