Journal of Medical & Surgical Pathology
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Abstract

Commentary on Clinical Staging and Histological Grading In Oral Submucous Fibrosis

Dominic Augustine, Roopa S Rao, Manish N, Shankargouda Patil and Tina Elizabeth Jacob

Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSF) has been reported almost exclusively among Indians living in India and among other Asiatics, with a reported prevalence ranging up to 0.4% in Indian rural population. The need to initiate early treatment is due to the fact that OSF carries a high risk of malignant transformation (7.6%). The signs and symptoms of the stages of OSF often overlap, to solve this issue researchers in the past have attempted to correlate the clinical and histopathologic features to ascertain the exact staging, few have reported a correlation while most have not.