Question 351 · LDEK · Periodontal and oral mucosal diseases in children
Which of the following is associated with an increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma?
- A. history of leukoedema.
- B. dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
- C. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
- D. juvenile spongiotic gingival hyperplasia.
- E. all the answers are correct.
Hint
Choose the inherited blistering condition in which chronic scarring of skin and mucosa predisposes to malignancy at a young age.
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