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Quick Review of Hairy Leukoplakia Basics

Published on Thu Dec 08, 2016

Here are some basic features of hairy leukoplakia that you can bank upon when reading the clinical documentation: Hairy leukoplakia is usually a painless plaque along the lateral border of the tongue. These white patches will usually be asymptomatic with no pain and many a times your clinician will discover them during routine examination. The plaques may also be found [...]
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