| 11. | Red areas within leukoplakia represent atrophic or immature epithelium which has lost the ability to keratinize.
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| 12. | And those with leukoplakia can have a 50 to 100 times higher risk of developing oral cancer.
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| 13. | Out of 103 patients with leukoplakia made up of cells with 46 chromosomes, only three developed cancer.
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| 14. | This term is a largely historical synonym for this subtype of candidiasis, rather than a true leukoplakia.
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| 15. | An indicator of cancer is the development of leukoplakia, which manifests as white patches on the vocal folds.
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| 16. | Other causes of white patches generally require pathologic examination of a biopsy specimen to distinguish with certainty from leukoplakia.
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| 17. | Mutations in the genes encoding this protein have been associated with White Sponge Nevus, characterized by anal leukoplakia.
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| 18. | Of 141 players tested from nine teams, 83 had tissue damage ( leukoplakia ), and 15 required biopsies.
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| 19. | Indeed, it can be clinically indistinguishable from true leukoplakia, but tissue biopsy shows candidal hyphae invading the epithelium.
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| 20. | However, this definition is inconsistently applied, and some refer to any oral white patch as " leukoplakia ".
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