Long-term outcome of surgical excision of leukoplakia in a screening intervention trial, Kerala, India

• Main Authors: Gigi Thomas (Author), Ramadas Kunnambath (Author), Thara Somanathan (Author), Babu Mathew (Author), Manoj Pandey (Author), Sankaranarayanan Rangaswamy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oral cancer is often preceeded by precancerous lesions and conditions, such as leukoplakia, erythroplakia and oral submucous fibrosis. One of the approaches for control of oral cancer is to detect oral precancerous lesions early in the development and prevent their malignant transformation to invasi...