Oral and Head/Neck Lymphoproliferative Disorders
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 684
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Interests: lymphoma diagnosis; neoplastic microenvironment; bone marrow pathology; Sjögren syndrome and gastrointestinal carcinogenesis; neuropathology; CNS tumors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The term lymphoproliferative disorders encompasses several disease patterns globally characterized by the proliferation of a more or less differentiated lymphoid clone. The application of immunological investigations, cytogenetics and molecular biology has helped researchers to better define such diseases generally recognized to be clinically and morphologically heterogeneous. In the oral cavity and generally in the head and neck, lymphoproliferative disorders most commonly occur as extra-nodal lymphoid lesions, but also often as localizations of spread disease. A careful clinical and radiographical examination of the head and neck, oral cavity and oropharynx is mandatory to identify suspicious lesions at an early stage. Additionally, an early pathological diagnosis allows the therapy to be set at the initial stages of disease, thus generally resulting in a better prognosis. Furthermore, the evaluation of patients after treatment for lymphoma is essential to prevent relapse and to recognize any eventual secondary localizations at an early stage. In this regard, oral pathologists and dental practitioners play a key role in both the treatment and long-term monitoring of such patients, having the possibility to easily examine and perform a diagnosis at the level of hard and soft tissue.
The aims of this Special Issue are first to collect clinical–epidemiological data on oral and head/neck lympho-proliferative diseases to highlight disease signs and symptoms at the early stage, to suggest a mini-invasive approach to diagnosis with the support of targeted histological and immunohistochemical investigations and to provide data about therapy efficiencies, clinical outcome and recurrence rate.
Dr. Giuseppe Ingravallo
Dr. Saverio Capodiferro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oral and head/neck lymphoproliferative diseases
- lymphomas
- oral malignancies
- early diagnosis
- epidemiological data
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