[PDF] Top 20 Oral lichen planus: study of 21 cases

... retrospective study conducted between 2005-2011 with 258 patients considered at risk for de- veloping oral ...months. Of the total num- ber of patients, 21 were diagnosed with OLP and ... See full document

... Background: Lichen planus is an idiopathic inflammatory disease of the skin, nail, hair and mucous ...membranes. Oral lichen planus (LP) is a chronic inflammatory condition that ... See full document

... quality of information on the Internet is a complex task, and no single criterion that considers all content exists, resulting in a superficial ...our study, we adapted tools used in previous articles ... See full document

... with oral lichen planus ...search of the literature was conducted to identify all published studies on the association between TNFα -308 G/A polymorphism and ...meta-analysis of the ... See full document

... immunodetection of VEGF and angiopoietins (ANG) 1 and 2, as well as the number of blood vessels was investigated in reticular (ROLP) (n=21) and atrophic-erosive (AEOLP) (n=11) oral ... See full document

... Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) is an oral inflammatory condition, mediated by host immune system reaction, presenting basal membrane damages with inflammatory lesions in the mouth and/or ...this ... See full document

... type of inductive enzyme during pathological phenomena such as inflammation and cancer are significantly ...expression of cox-2 in gastric carcinoma, pancreatic, lung and oral squamous cell carcinoma ... See full document

... Oral lichen planus (OLP), a chronic inflamma- tory dermatosis of unknown etiology often involving the mucous membranes, is a disease that causes bilateral white striations, papules or plaques ... See full document

... As lesões orais do líquen plano e do lúpus eritematoso exibem aparência clínica e histopatológica similar, o que dificulta o diagnóstico. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar critérios de diagnóstico ... See full document

... Lichen planus (LP) is a relatively rare chronic in flammatory skin ...review of 45 studies showed that the prevalence of oral LP is between 1 and 3%; only one study could ... See full document

... bution of lesions on the scalp, involvement of other hairy areas, simultaneous diagnoses on the scalp, oth- er sites of lichen planus, local symptoms, findings on clinical and ... See full document

... immunodetection of VEGF, our results revealed that the ROLP group showed significantly higher values in comparison to the AEOLP ...that of earlier ...immunodetection of VEGF between reticular and ... See full document

... review of 79 cases published in the literature about ELP a marked predilection for mid- dle-aged women was noticed, affecting preferably patients with oral and/or vulvar LP, as well as the de- ... See full document

... bution – with cases of zoster-like distribution – and less commonly affect the oral mucosa. The most common pigmentation pattern is diffuse, but less common patterns might be found, such as ... See full document

... variety of autografts, homografts, synthetic ossicular grafts, and prostheses have been employed for reconstructing the ossicular ...number of prosthesis being available, comparisons become ...capable ... See full document

... Methods The authors report a case of PNP with predominant lichen planus-like lesions and review the relevant literature. We observed a 74-year-old female with vesico-bullous, erosive, target-shaped ... See full document

... patients presented with scalp involvement in our study. In relation to diagnostic investigation, a scalp biopsy was probably not per- formed because histopathology is not presented as a fundamental T able 1: ... See full document

... Histopathology of the biopsies from the parietal alopecia plaque, eyebrow and axilla revealed a perifollicular lymphocytic inflammatory ...areas of the scalp, periocular and cervical regions (Figure ... See full document

... Patients and controls signed informed consent forms. Demo- graphic, clinical and laboratory data registered onto study forms by a dermatologist. Blood pressure was measured after seated for at least 5 min. ... See full document

... Also of interest are the positive fi ndings of Bcl-2 protein expression, associated with p27 and p53 protein ...control of apoptosis) plays an important role in regulating cell cycles and cellular ... See full document