Quantitative and qualitative analysis of mast cells in oral lichen planus and its effect on basement membrane using special stains

• Glavni autori: Treville Pereira (Autor), J Aswathy (Autor), Subraj Shetty (Autor), Avinash Tamgadge (Autor), Sandhya Tamgadge (Autor), Swati Gotmare (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Background: Oral lichen planus (OLP) is characterized histologically by epithelial basal cell destruction and a dense subepithelial lymphocytic infiltrate. Mast cells (MCs) play a role in the pathogenesis and progression of the disease causing changes in the basement membrane (BM). BM is seen as con...