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Title: | Clinical features of oral lichen planus. A retrospective study of 65 cases |
Author: | Torrente Castells, Eulàlia Barbosa de Figueiredo, Rui Pedro Berini Aytés, Leonardo Gay Escoda, Cosme |
Keywords: | Líquens Malalties de la boca Hepatitis vírica Tabac Lichens Mouth diseases Viral hepatitis Tobacco |
Issue Date: | 1-Sep-2010 |
Publisher: | Medicina Oral SL |
Abstract: | Objectives: To describe the clinical features of patients diagnosed with oral lichen planus (OLP) and to establish the prevalence of its malignant transformation in our setting. Study design: A retrospective study was made of 65 patients clinically and histologically diagnosed with OLP in the Service of Oral Surgery (Dental Clinic of the University of Barcelona, Spain) in the period 1990-2005. A descriptive and bivariate statistical analysis was made. Results: The mean patient age was 59 years (SD ± 14.9). Most of the patients (61%) were women, and the most frequent location of the lesions was the buccal mucosa (90.8%). White forms of OLP were noted in 66% of the cases, and 46.2% of the patients reported symptoms of some kind. The patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (20%) showed a larger proportion of red lesions (p=0.088). No statistically significant association was observed between chronic liver disease and the OLP lesion types or symptoms. Two cases of squamous cell carcinoma were identified in two patients previously or simultaneously diagnosed with OLP. A statistically significant correlation was observed between dysplastic changes / malignization of the lesions and smoking habit (p=0.019). An association to alcohol abuse was also noted, though in this case statistical significance was not reached (p=0.085). Conclusions: The clinical features of our study population were similar to those described in other studies. Diabetic patients with OLP were seen to be more susceptible to the development of atrophic-erosive lesions. Smokers and/or patients with alcohol abuse in turn showed a greater tendency to develop dysplastic changes / malignization in the histopathological study of the lesions |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.15.e685 Podeu consultar la versió en castellà del document a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/145899 |
It is part of: | Medicina Oral, Patología Oral y Cirugia Bucal, 2010, vol. 15, num. 5, p. 685-690 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/52523 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.15.e685 |
ISSN: | 1698-4447 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Odontoestomatologia) Articles publicats en revistes (Institut d'lnvestigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)) |
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