Potentially Malignant Disorders Images

Potentially Malignant Disorders

  • Previously popular as premalignant lesions and conditions, only a fractional percentage of these show malignant changes.

  • Variable host factors ( genetics, habits, nutritional status, immunity, trauma etc. ) as well as environmental factors govern the course of these disorders.

Photomicrograph showing moderate dysplastic changes in leukoplakia (H & E; Magnification X 100).

Photomicrograph showing severe dysplasia in a case of speckled leukoplakia (H & E; Magnification X 100).

Photomicrograph depicting increased and abnormal mitotic figures within basal and suprabasal layers of the epithelium (H & E; Magnification X 400).

Photomicrograph depicting loss of cohesion alongwith cellular and nuclear pleomorphism (H & E; Magnification X 400).

Photomicrograph showing Max Joseph spaces in Oral lichen Planus with dense inflammatory cells infiltrate in the juxta-epithelial zone (H & E; Magnification X 100).

Photomicrograph revealing thick matted collagen fiber bundles with interlacing in Advanced Oral Submucous Fibrosis (H & E; Magnification X 100).