0000000000789101
AUTHOR
Paderni C
Transmucosal delivery della Galantamina attraverso mucosa buccale ex vivo
The idiosyncratic relation between diagnostic delay of oral squamous carcinoma and factors related to patients delay in a population of Southern Italy
Demographic and behavioural profiles of patients with common oral mucosal lesions by a homogeneity analysis
Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the main oral mucosal lesions (OMLs) within a hospital base and to provide an anamnestic, diagnostic model based on homogeneity analysis of some variables. Methods: The demographic and behavioural data (i.e. gender, age, smoking status, alcohol consumption and therapeutic drug usage) of 1753 patients with at least one OML were considered. Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and multivariate tests of the simultaneous marginal homogeneity hypothesis (SMH) were used to analyse the evidence of any differences between the demographic and behavioural profiles relating to OMLs diagnoses. Statistical significance of P<0.05 was chosen. Results: With r…