Abstract

ESTRADA PEREIRA, Gladys Aída; MARQUEZ FILIU, Maricel  and  GONZALEZ HEREDIA, Eugenia. Incidence of erythroleukoplakia in the oral cavity. MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.11, pp. 1712-1717. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 20 women and men older than 19 years, who were heavy smokers, assisted in the Stomatology Department of the Specialties Polyclinic from "Saturnino Lora Torres" Provincial Teaching Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from September, 2007 to the same month of 2010, with the objective of evaluating the results of the clinico-histopathological diagnosis, obtained from the examination to the oral cavity and from the biopsy carried out to patients with erythroleukoplakia. The samples were fixed and processed through the conventional technique of inclusion in paraffin, which confirmed the presence of tissue changes. Male sex, the absence of clinical manifestations and the cheek mucosa as the most susceptible location prevailed in the case material. Also, the most common tissue alterations were the hyperkeratosis and the subepithelial inflammatory infiltrate.

Keywords : oral erythroleukoplakia; histopathological diagnosis; biopsy; hyperkeratosis; subepithelial inflammatory infiltrate; secondary health care.

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