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 ...

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 ...