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- 2017
Immunoexpression of cytokeratin-19 in the oral lichen planus and related oral squamous cell carcinomaDOI: 10.11138/ads/2017.8.3.104 Keywords: cytokeratin, oral cancer, oral squamous cell carcinoma, oral lichen planus, head and neck cancer Abstract: Cytokeratin 19 (CK-19) is an epithelium-specific intermediate filament protein that has been investigated in oral lichen planus (OLP) lesions but has not been compared with the expression of CK-19 in the OLP-related oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). The aim of the present study has been to objectively compare the immunohistochemical expression of the CK-19 in OLP lesions and subsequent OSCC lesions that developed over time, to evaluate the change of the staining pattern among OLP and the grades of differentiation in OSCC
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