Full Description
Oral Pathology as part of the Head and Neck Pathology is an interdisciplinary field of science. The oral mucosa and the saliva are reflectors of many systemic diseases of the organism and therefore valuable parameters of the diagnosis and prognosis of pathological processes. In the last years many new methods have been integrated in the diagnostic repertoire. Proliferation markers are of predicitive value and characterize the biological behavior of a tumor. Markers are such as oncogenes, growth factor receptors or genetic aberrations. The importance of these new markers shall be discussed concerning the different types of oral cancers and salivary gland tumours.
Contents
Mucocutaneous Conditions Affecting the Mouth.- New Aspects of Oral Viral Diseases.- Oral Pathology of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Oro-facial Kaposi's Sarcoma.- Extranodal Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas of the Oral Cavity.- Importance of Proliferation Markers in Oral Pathology.- Suppressor Protein p53 and Its Occurrence in Oral Tumours.- Genomic Instability in Head and Neck Cancer.- Oncogenes and Growth Factor Receptors as Diagnostic and Prognostic Markers in Precancers and Cancers of the Oral Mucosa.
