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| Year : 1991 | Volume
: 45
| Issue : 10 | Page : 273-5 |
Smokeless tobacco and premalignant and malignant lesions of the oral cavity.
RN Chakrabarti, K Dutta, S Sikdar, K Ghosh
Department of Pathology, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Calcutta,
Correspondence Address:
R N Chakrabarti
Department of Pathology, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Calcutta
PMID: 1797655
The paper compares the prevalence of oral carcinoma and dysplasia in smokeless tobacco users and non users. A total of 3205 subjects were studied. Of the smokeless tobacco users, 1.96 percent had oral carcinoma compared with 0.36 percent of non-users. The prevalence of oral dysplasia in the users' group was 14.4 percent as compared with 6.85 percent in the group of non-users.
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