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New floristic data of alien vascular plants from Sicily
New records of Commelina communis, Euphorbia hypericifolia, Melia azedarach, Nicotiana tabacum, and Xanthoceras sorbifolium are reported for the Sicilian flora
Novel non-invasive adjunctive techniques for early oral cancer diagnosis and oral lesions examination
Oral cancer is a potentially fatal disease with an increasing incidence and an unchanged 5-year mortality rate. Unfortunately, oral cancer is often still late diagnosed, which leads to an increase in the likelihood of functional impairment due to treatment and mortality rate. Definitive diagnosis of oral cancer must be confirmed by scalpel biopsy and histological assessment. However despite its benefits, scalpel biopsy is invasive and it is burdened by a potential morbidity. Furthermore, previous studies have suggested a high degree of intraobserver and interobserver variability regarding the histological evaluation of malignancy. As a consequence, in recent years there has been a growing and persisting demand towards developing new non-invasive, practical diagnostic tools that might facilitate the early detection of oral cancer. The most investigated non-invasive adjunctive techniques are vital staining, autofluorescence, chemiluminescence, narrow band imaging, and exfoliative cytology. Aim of the review is to critically describe these adjunctive aids and, after considering the literature data, an expert opinion on the effectiveness and the possible use of each technique will be provided
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Detection in Keratotic Variants of Oral Lichen Planus: Negative Results in a Preliminary Open Study
Background During the last few decades, several researches have been identified HPV genomic sequences in Head Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas (HNSCC) and in Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders (OPMD) hypothesizing a possible viral etiological role. However, the reported prevalence of HPV-DNA (varying from 0% to 100%) in these lesions result still very discordant.
Objective Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) has been largely investigated but not so extensively with respect to its morphological/histopathological features. The possible influence of hyper-keratosis/parakeratosis in HPV detection for keratotic variants of OLP is here proposed and investigated.
Materials and methods A total of 45 individuals with keratotic variants of OLP, clinically and histologically confirmed, were consecutively enrolled, before starting any treatment, and underwent oral brushing for HPV investigation. Viral DNA was extracted from oral brushed cells and HPV DNA researched by the combined use of the INNO-LiPA HPV Genotyping system (Innogenetics) and a PCR assay coupled with genome sequencing.
Results None of cytological samples collected resulted HPV-positive.
Conclusions In this preliminary study, oral HPV infection, investigated by means of a non-invasive oral sampling procedure and a standardized approach for HPV DNA detection, was not showed in any of the investigated cases. The presence of epithelial hyper-keratosis/parakeratosis in some variants of OLP could be a possible cause of impenetrability and/or difficult detection of the virus. Indeed, in case of keratotic variants of OLP, the possible potential false-negative results of HPV investigation by cytological procedure might be possible; on consequence, an alternative approach for viral detection (i.e. by histological sampling) should be considered
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Aging: Past, Present and Future
In his Foundation series, published in the 1950’s, Isaac Asimov imagined Civilization capable of colonizing the entire Universe. This feat is unlikely to occur. Strikingly, Asimov referred to a 70-old man as an old individual who is unlikely to live much longer. Thus, in literature’s most daring fantasy, the pace of aging could not be slowed. Yet, given the present pace of discovery in the aging field, this feat might become a reality within our life time, with science surpassing science fiction
Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in a cancer patient receiving lenvatinib
Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) is an adverse drug reaction that affects the mandible and maxilla of patients exposed to bone-targeting agents such as anti-resorptive and anti-angiogenic agents. Several MRONJ cases have been reported after dental extractions in patients under treatment with anti-angiogenic agents, including receptor activator of nuclear factor κB ligand (RANKL) inhibitor, anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) monoclonal antibody, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors, and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). The aim of this article was to describe an original case of lenvatinib-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in a patient affected by thyroid cancer. A 58-year-old man diagnosed with Hurthle cell thyroid cancer, who was undergoing treatment with lenvatinib, developed maxillary osteonecrosis after a dental extraction. No other concomitant local or systemic risk factors for MRONJ were present. With new cancer therapies applied every year, it is important to note this novel case of lenvatinib osteonecrosis of the jaw in a patient undergoing cancer treatment
Prevenzione e management odontoiatrico dei pazienti oncologici a rischio di osteonecrosi delle ossa mascellari da farmaci
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L\u2019odontoiatria a misura del paziente con patologia osteometabolica a rischio di osteonecrosi delle ossa mascellari da farmaci.
L\u2019osteonecrosi delle ossa mascellari
(ONJ) da farmaci \ue8 una severa patologia
odontoiatrica, recentemente defi nita
come \uabuna reazione avversa farmacocorrelata,
caratterizzata dalla progressiva
distruzione e necrosi dell\u2019osso
mandibolare e/o mascellare di soggetti
esposti al trattamento con farmaci per
cui sia accertato un aumentato rischio
di malattia, in assenza di un pregresso
trattamento radiante\ubb1-3. I pazienti
osteometabolici a rischio di sviluppare
l\u2019ONJ sono quelli sottoposti a terapia
con bisfosfonati (in particolare aminobisfosfonati
o Nitrogen-containing
BisPhosphonate/NBP) e, pi\uf9 recentemente,
con denosumab (anticorpo monoclonale
anti-RANKL)4. Tali farmaci
antiriassorbitivi caratterizzati da una
prevalente azione inibitoria sul metabolismo
dell\u2019osso, sono ampiamente
prescritti per la cura di patologie osteometaboliche,
prevalentemente osteoporosi
primaria o secondaria, oltre che
per la prevenzione e il trattamento di
lesioni scheletriche in pazienti con patologia
onco-ematologica1,5-7
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