Evaluation of the presence of myofibroblasts and matrix metalloproteinase 1 expression in the stroma of oral verrucous hyperplasia and verrucous carcinoma

• Main Authors: Nazanin Mahdavi (Author), Pouyan Aminishakib (Author), Parisa Nabiyi (Author), Alireza Ghanadan (Author), Maedeh Ghorbanpour (Author), Merva Soluk-Tekkesin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Oral verrucous carcinoma is a low-grade subtype of oral squamous cell carcinoma that should be differentiated from oral verrucous hyperplasia, a premalignant lesion. Stromal activated myofibroblasts known as cancer-associated fibroblasts have an active role in the initiation and progress...