Synonym(s)
Leukoplakia
DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Clinical term for mostly circumscribed, sharply or blurredly defined, white foci of the mucosa which are pathogenetically based on a keratinization of the otherwise non-ceratinizing squamous epithelium of the mucosa. S.a.u. Leukoplakia, oral, s.a.u. Erythroplakia, oral. Leucoplakia is the most frequent precancerous condition of the oral cavity.
The diagnosis "leukoplakia" is a purely descriptive morphological one, which does not allow any statement about the causal mechanism. A leukoplakia must be considered a carcinoma in situ or already invasive until the opposite is histologically proven.
ClassificationThis section has been translated automatically.
S.u. Leukoplakia, oral.
TherapyThis section has been translated automatically.
According to the underlying disease.
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