0002745 Oral leukoplakia

synonym leukokeratosis Oral leukoplasia Oral idiopathic white patch Oral idiopathic leukoplakia Oral white patch Oral idiopathic keratosis Oral leucoplakia Oral leukokeratosis Oral white plaque

comment The definition of oral leukoplakia states that the lesion be characterized clinically or histologically as any other condition, and is not associated with any physical or chemical causative agent except tobacco. Leukoplakia is a precancerous lesion, i.e. a morphologically altered tissue in which cancer is more likely to occur than in its apparently normal counterpart.