A case of early squamous cell carcinoma with an appearance of erythroplakia

Abstract

It is generally accepted that erythroplakia is a precancerous lesion of the oral mucosa like leukoplakia. It appears as a bright-red, velvety or slightly granular, asymptomatic plaque and is reported to be more likely to develop into carcinoma than leukoplakia.
In this paper, a case of early invasive carcinoma of the tongue with an appearance of erythroplakia, is reported. The lesion was resected at the level of muscles and the exposed surface of muscle was irradiated with Nd-YAG LASER system. There has been no evidence of recurrence for the past one year follow up.