About 60% of the oral cancer arise on a pre-existent potentially malignant disorder of oral mucosa like the oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia. The treatment with the photodynamic therapy of these lesions represents, in the last years, an innovative, non-invasive and effective therapeutic possibility to achieve the secondary prevention of oral cancer. In the last decade, case reports have described patients with similar treated through a photochemical reaction induced by laser light. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the topical 5-ALA photodynamic therapy in the treatment of a case of Oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.
Oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia treated with the photodynamic therapy: a case report / Romeo, Umberto; Russo, Nicola; Palaia, Gaspare; Tenore, Gianluca; DEL VECCHIO, Alessandro. - In: ANNALI DI STOMATOLOGIA. - ISSN 1971-1441. - STAMPA. - 5:2(2014), p. 77-80.
Oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia treated with the photodynamic therapy: a case report
ROMEO, Umberto;PALAIA, GASPARE;TENORE, GIANLUCA;DEL VECCHIO, Alessandro
2014
Abstract
About 60% of the oral cancer arise on a pre-existent potentially malignant disorder of oral mucosa like the oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia. The treatment with the photodynamic therapy of these lesions represents, in the last years, an innovative, non-invasive and effective therapeutic possibility to achieve the secondary prevention of oral cancer. In the last decade, case reports have described patients with similar treated through a photochemical reaction induced by laser light. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the topical 5-ALA photodynamic therapy in the treatment of a case of Oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
