Abstract:abstract— Biopsies from 13 oral leukoplakias and from normal tissue specimens in the contralateral region of each patient were examined histologically and microradiographically. Microradiographs of freeze‐sectioned and freeze‐dried sections were made and quantitative photometric analyses of the distribution of the dry mass concentration in different epithelial cell layers of both normal and pathologic specimens were performed. In each microradiograph, the thickness of the stratum corneum was determined. The re… Show more
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