1 Bibliography

1.1 Reviews

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1.2 Epidemiology of OSF Worldwide

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    Yang SF, Wang YH, Su NY, Yu HC, Wei CY, Yu CH, et al. Changes in prevalence of precancerous oral submucous fibrosis from 1996 to 2013 in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based retrospective study. J Med Assoc. 2018;117:147–52.

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    Yang PY, Chen YT, Wang YH, Su NY, Yu HC, Chang YC. Malignant transformation of oral submucous fibrosis in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study. J Oral Pathol Med. 2017;46:1040–5.

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    Aishwarya KM, Reddy MP, Kulkarni S, Doshi D, Reddy BS, Satyanarayana D. Effect of frequency and duration of tobacco use on oral mucosal lesions—a cross-sectional study among tobacco users in Hyderabad, India. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2017;18(8):2233–8.

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1.3 Clinical Presentation and Evaluation: Paediatric and Adult Patients of OSF

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    Chandran A, Aswath N. Assessment of function of eustachian tube in oral submucous fibrosis—a tympanometric study. J Clin Diagn Res. 2016;10(9):ZC13–5.

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    Ankita C, Panat SR, Sangamesh NC, Aggarwal A, Jha PC. Evaluation of masseter muscle hypertrophy in OSF patients: an ultrasonographic study. J Clin Diagn Res. 2014;8(9):ZC45–7.

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1.4 Classification, Grading and Staging Systems Used in OSF

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1.5 Etiopathogenesis of OSF as an OPMD

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    Ekanayaka RP, Tilakaratne WM. Oral submucous fibrosis: review on mechanisms of pathogenesis and malignant transformation. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2018;125(6):612–27.

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    Gandhi P, Prasad UC. Evaluation of myofibroblasts in oral submucous fibrosis and oral squamous cell carcinoma: the pathogenesis and correlation. Dent Res J (Isfahan). 2017;14(5):314–20.

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1.8 Immunohistochemistry in OSF

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    Malik SN, Vyas Z, KotariH, Prabhu VD, Alam MK, Kumar BSK. Association of Histological Grading of Oral Submucous Fibrosis to Cytokeratin 19 Immunohistochemical Staining. World J Dent 2018; 9(2):117-121.

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1.9 Diagnostic, Serology and Prognostic evaluation

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