[To the question of proliferative verrucous leukoplakia malignant potential].
A A IvinaV A SyomkinO F RabinovichIgor I BabichenkoPublished in: Arkhiv patologii (2020)
The obtained results proclaim that there is no stage of epithelial dysplasia during tumor transformation of proliferative verrucous leukoplakia into verrucous carcinoma and oral squamous cell carcinoma. Verrucous carcinoma by the nature of proliferative activity, cell atypia and expression of cytokeratin 15 corresponds to carcinoma in situ.