Clinicopathologic diagnostic criteria of an enigmatic entity: Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia

• Main Authors: Ramnarayan Belur Krishna Prasad (Author), Prathima Mallappa Maligi (Author), Smitha Thimappa (Author), Shashi Ram (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia (PVL) is a rare, unique type of oral leukoplakia, which is enigmatic in etiology and behaves in a far more aggressive fashion than other forms of leukoplakia. Diagnosis is often late with the disease in an advanced stage when it is especially refractory to treatme...