@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00013116, author = {杉原, 一正 and SUGIHARA, Kazumasa}, journal = {鹿児島大学歯学部紀要}, month = {Mar}, note = {Various kinds of lesions occur in oral mucosa, but ocular inspection is very important because we can watch the lesion of the oral mucosa with directly one’s eyes and can diagnose it. For the early detection of oral cancer, it is usually important that we recognize it well about a macroscopic characteristic of oral cancer. As clinical features of oral cancer, growth and the increase of tumor are rapid, border of the cancer with the normal tissue is indistinct and it presents induration on palpation due to infiltrative growth. Oral cancer is classified in a bulging type, a granulation type, a vitiligo type, a papilloma type as well as an ulcer type by the property of tumor surface, presence or absence of ulceration, and presents with various clinical features. Most of oral cancer are histopathologically squamous cell arcinomas, and there are many cases of the high grade malignancy, and tongue cancers are easy to cause lymph nodes metastasis early, and oral cancers compared with other cancers such as breast cancer or rectal cancer, show a poor prognosis. Because oral cancers such as tongue cancers are almost discovered by a dental practitioner, the everyday training for the early detection of oral cancer is important for dentists. Precancerous lesions of the oral mucosa include leukoplakia and erythroplakia, as for leukoplakia, white patches which they cannot remove by an abrasion, malignant transformations occur in 4%?18% of the lesions and, as for erythroplakia, the red velvet-shaped erythema which malignat transformation occur in 40%?50% of the lesions. A lesion of the oral mucosa which you should distinguish from oral cancer includes decubitus ulcer (traumatic ulcer), aphthous stomatitis, pemphigus vulgaris, oral candidiasis, oral hairy leukoplakia, papilloma.}, pages = {3--11}, title = {口腔癌の早期発見のために}, volume = {34}, year = {2014} }