Characteristics of Clinically Classified Oral Lichen Planus in Optical Coherence Tomography: A Descriptive Case-Series Study
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Abstract
Malignant transformation of oral lichen planus (OLP) into oral squamous cell carcinoma is considered as one of the most serious complications of OLP. For the early detection of oral cancer in OLP follow-up, accurate localization of the OLP center is still difficult but often required for confirmatory biopsy with histopathological examination. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) offers the potential for more reliable biopsy sampling in the oral cavity as it is capable of non-invasively imaging the degenerated oral layer structure. In this case-series study with 15 patients, features of clinically classified forms of OLP in OCT cross-sections were registered and correlated with available histologic sections. Besides patients with reticular, atrophic, erosive and plaque-like OLP, two patients with leukoplakia were included for differentiation. The results show that OCT yields information about the epithelial surface, thickness and reflectivity, as well as the identifiability of the basement membrane and the vessel network, which could be used to complement the visual clinical appearance of OLP variants and allow a more accurate localization of the OLP center. This forms the basis for further studies on OCT-assisted non-invasive clinical classification of OLP, with the aim of enabling decision support for biopsy sampling in the future.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2642 |
Journal | Diagnostics |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 16 |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2023 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
PubMed | 37627901 |
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Mendeley | 16341ec2-af34-37df-8feb-166ae9e354b1 |
Scopus | 85168994981 |
ORCID | /0000-0002-8160-3000/work/142248362 |
ORCID | /0000-0002-7267-7016/work/142249547 |
ORCID | /0000-0003-0554-2178/work/142249931 |
ORCID | /0000-0003-2292-5533/work/148607525 |
ORCID | /0000-0003-2292-5533/work/150885213 |
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Keywords
- biomedical imaging, endoscopy, fiber optics, histology, human oral mucosa, leukoplakia, optical coherence tomography, oral cancer, oral lichen planus, precancerous lesions