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  • Title: Desquamative gingivitis. Clinical, histopathologic, and immunopathologic investigations.
    Author: Rogers RS, Sheridan PJ, Jordon RE.
    Journal: Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol; 1976 Sep; 42(3):316-27. PubMed ID: 787862.
    Abstract:
    Desquamative gingivitis is not a disease sui generis but is a descriptive term for a condition that requires thorough clinical evaluation and histopathologic and immunopathologic studies for accurate diagnosis. The present study emphasizes this statement. Six of seven patients with "desquamative gingivitis" were placed in a category of "possible cicatricial pemphigoid." During a 3-year observation period, five of six cases evolved into unequivocal cicatricial pemphigoid. Our studies lend credence to a hypothesis that immunopathologic mechanisms are operative in some forms of desquamative gingivitis.
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