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Oral pigmentation: A review

Pigmentations are commonly found in the mouth. They represent in various clinical patterns that can range from just physiologic changes to oral manifestations of systemic diseases and malignancies. Color changes in the oral mucosa can be attributed to the deposition of either endogenous or exogenous...

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Autores principales: Sreeja, C., Ramakrishnan, K., Vijayalakshmi, D., Devi, M., Aesha, I., Vijayabanu, B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26538887
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.163471
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description Pigmentations are commonly found in the mouth. They represent in various clinical patterns that can range from just physiologic changes to oral manifestations of systemic diseases and malignancies. Color changes in the oral mucosa can be attributed to the deposition of either endogenous or exogenous pigments as a result of various mucosal diseases. The various pigmentations can be in the form of blue/purple vascular lesions, brown melanotic lesions, brown heme-associated lesions, gray/black pigmentations.
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spelling pubmed-46066292015-11-04 Oral pigmentation: A review Sreeja, C. Ramakrishnan, K. Vijayalakshmi, D. Devi, M. Aesha, I. Vijayabanu, B. J Pharm Bioallied Sci Dental Science - Review Article Pigmentations are commonly found in the mouth. They represent in various clinical patterns that can range from just physiologic changes to oral manifestations of systemic diseases and malignancies. Color changes in the oral mucosa can be attributed to the deposition of either endogenous or exogenous pigments as a result of various mucosal diseases. The various pigmentations can be in the form of blue/purple vascular lesions, brown melanotic lesions, brown heme-associated lesions, gray/black pigmentations. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4606629/ /pubmed/26538887 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.163471 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606629/
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