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Methylene blue as an early diagnostic marker for oral precancer and cancer

Overview of attention for article published in SpringerPlus, March 2013
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Title
Methylene blue as an early diagnostic marker for oral precancer and cancer
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SpringerPlus, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/2193-1801-2-95
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Akhtar Riaz, Balasundari Shreedhar, Mala Kamboj, S Natarajan

Abstract

Oral cancer is one of the most common neoplasm's and is ranked eighth in the cancer incidence worldwide. Early detection is of critical importance because survival rates markedly improve. In vivo staining is a simple, inexpensive, and fairly sensitive method. Involved 120 patients (50 with Premalignant Lesion, 50 with OSCC and 20 controls) stained by Methylene Blue (MB). The results of MB uptake were compared with a simultaneous biopsy of these lesions. Pathologically confirmed precancers and cancers were the positive targets of this screening, while hyperkeratosis without dysplasia and no evidence of malignancy were sorted as negative subjects of screening. The results revealed sensitivity of 91.4%, specificity of 66.6%, positive predictive value 97.7% and negative predictive value 33% leading to diagnostic accuracy of MB stain to 90%. We state that MB staining is useful diagnostic tool in community oral cancer screening programmes for high-risk individuals.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 60 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Student > Master 6 10%
Student > Postgraduate 4 7%
Other 11 18%
Unknown 16 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 41%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Chemistry 2 3%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 17 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 June 2015.
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#6,255,675
of 22,701,287 outputs
Outputs from SpringerPlus
#380
of 1,852 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,514
of 195,385 outputs
Outputs of similar age from SpringerPlus
#16
of 128 outputs
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