Malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the last 5 years.

José Manuel Aguirre-Urizar Irene Lafuente-Ibáñez de Mendoza Saman Warnakulasuriya

Published in: Oral diseases (2021)

The pooled proportion of malignant transformation MT was 9.8% (95% CI: 7.9-11.7). It is necessary to continue to conduct well-designed prospective clinicopathological studies on OL, using a uniform definition for OL to reduce the risk of bias for evaluating various factors associated with the MT.

Keyphrases

systematic review
meta analyses
randomized controlled trial
case control
clinical trial