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CHRONIC HYPERPLASTIC CANDIDOSIS/CANDIDIASIS (CANDIDAL LEUKOPLAKIA)

Department of Oral Medicine and Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

L.P. Samaranayake^*

Oral Biosciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Prince Philip Dental Hospital, 34 Hospital Road, Hong Kong SAR, China;

View larger version (110K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. The classic presentation of chronic hyperplastic candidosis at the commissures of the oral mucosa.

View larger version (122K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Grocott’s methenamine silver-stained histopathological section of hyperplastic candidosis. This stain clearly demonstrates the blastospores and filamentous fungal elements (in black), although it poorly visualizes the inflammatory exudates and other host cells (x200).

Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 4, 253-267 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/154411130301400403


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