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Diagnostic criteria in proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: evaluation
Begoña García-Chías1, Laura Casado-De La Cruz, Germán-Carlos Esparza-Gómez
1Department of Medicine and Buccofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, rcererol@odon.ucm.es.
Objectives:
to evaluate the ability of the diagnostic criteria proposed by Cerero et al in 2010 to perform an early diagnose in patients with proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.
Study Design:
retrospective study with patients diagnosed with leukoplakia at Oral Medicine Service at Oral Medicine and Surgery Department at Dentistry Faculty at Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
Results:
the criteria were applied in 116 patients, turning positive in 40 cases. Out of these, 24 (60%) had been previously diagnosed with PVL. Most frequent criteria were major criteria A and E, concerning lesion's site and histopathology, and minor criteria b and c, concerning sex and smoking habit.
Conclusions:
diagnostic criteria developed by Cerero et al can be a useful tool for an early diagnose of PVL, as in 60% of the cases, the criteria would have allowed to make an early diagnose of the disease.
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