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Oral premalignant lesions: from the pathological viewpoint

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Under the widely used World Health Organization (WHO) classification for the pathological diagnosis of oral premalignant lesions, dysplasia, which is graded as mild, moderate or severe, and carcinoma in situ (CIS), which is a non-invasive carcinoma, are classified as precursor lesions of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Since the first edition (Wahi et al. International histological classification of tumours no. 4, WHO, Geneva, 1971), the criterion for CIS—that all epithelial layers are replaced by atypical cells—has remained unchanged. However, this dysplasia–carcinoma sequence theory was introduced from the viewpoint of pathological changes in the uterine cervix: in contrast, almost all premalignant lesions and CIS of the oral mucosa show superficial maturation and differentiation. Based on this recognition, the squamous intraepithelial neoplasia (SIN) classification and Ljubljana classification were included in WHO’s latest edition published in 2005. Although the WHO classification is commonly used in Japan, recent developments in oral oncology have promoted modifications of the classification used in this country. In 2005, the Working Group of the Japan Society for Oral Tumours advocated iodine staining and proposed a modified SIN system, and in 2007, the Working Committee of the Japanese Society for Oral Pathology (JSOP) reported a new CIS (JSOP) definition that included differentiated-type CIS. In 2010, based on these studies, a new entity—oral intraepithelial neoplasia (OIN)—was included in the first edition of General Rules for Clinical and Pathological Studies on Oral Cancer. In this review, we focus on the OIN/CIS (JSOP) new classification of premalignant lesions in oral mucosa, which further advances the concept of SIN.

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Izumo, T. Oral premalignant lesions: from the pathological viewpoint. Int J Clin Oncol 16, 15–26 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10147-010-0169-z

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