March 16, 2010 — Tongue conditions commonly seen in primary care are reviewed for the family physician in an article published in the March 1 issue of American Family Physician. "According to the ...

CANCER of the tongue continues to rank as the most frequent intraoral neoplasm and accounts for about 2 per cent of all deaths from cancer. What is more distressing, five-year salvage rates for the ...

A shave excision is a simple procedure that your doctor can use to remove growths, such as moles, lesions, and tumors, from your skin. The primary tool used in this procedure is a sharp razor. You ...

The treatment is dependent on the histologic features. If possible, a leukoplakia lesion with moderate dysplasia should be completely removed by surgical excision, electrocautery, laser ablation, or ...

Most red or hyperpigmented lesions in the mouth are inconsequential. However, cancer and some systemic diseases may present in this way. Most red lesions are inflammatory or atrophic but ...

Increased odds of positive margins were associated with tumors from the head and neck (OR 2.78), excision in a primary care facility (OR 2.20), and increased tumor thickness (OR 1.56). Increased odds ...

Background A 66-year-old Asian man presented with a tongue ulcer and without palpable metastases to the neck nodes. A thorough clinical examination of the head and neck region did not reveal any other ...

This prospective study on reflectance confocal microscopy, a high-resolution and noninvasive form of imaging for skin cancer, investigated if the diagnostic method could improve accuracy results by 30 ...