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This study compared the clinical characteristics of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) who had and had not been previously diagnosed with PVL. Methods: This case control study compared the clinical characteristics of patients classified as early (T1 and T2) or advanced (T3 and T4) OSCC according to the T size of the Tumor, Node, Metastasis (TNM) classification, including age, gender, location, and clinical type of oral squamous cell carcinoma. The analysis involved 140 patients. Group 1: 50 OSCC patients with PVL (OSCC-PVL) and Group 2: 90 OSCC patients without PVL (OSCC-noPVL). Results: The patients with OSCC-PVL were younger than those with OSCC-noPVL, but this did not reach statistical significance. Regarding patient gender, those with OSCC-PVL were much more frequently female (70%), while OSCC-noPVL was more prevalent in men (65.5%) (p &lt; 0.01). There were also significant differences in the oral locations between the two groups: the gingiva was most prevalent in OSCC-PVL and the tongue in OSCC-noPVL. Erythroleukoplastic forms were significantly more common in OSCC-PVL (30% vs. 7.7%), while ulcerated forms were more frequent in OSCC-noPVL (63.3% vs. 42%). Finally, early T stages were much more prevalent in our patients with OSCC-PVL. Conclusions: We found that OSCC preceded by PVL was much more frequent in women, had less aggressive clinical forms, and had significantly more frequent early T stages than in OSCC-noPVL.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/cancers17071199","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,1]],"date-time":"2025-04-01T05:29:19Z","timestamp":1743485359000},"page":"1199","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Malignant Transformation of Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia: A Description of the Clinical Oral Characteristics of These Squamous Cell Carcinomas"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0295-2916","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jose","family":"Bagan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Medicina Bucal Unit, Stomatology Department, Valencia University, 46010 Valencia, Spain"},{"name":"Precancer and Oral Cancer Research Group, Valencia University, 46010 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Judith","family":"Murillo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Service of Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery, University General Hospital, 46014 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jose M.","family":"Sanchis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Service of Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery, University General Hospital, 46014 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0635-4961","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David","family":"Herv\u00e1s","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Statistics and Operational Research, and Quality, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, 46022 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Leticia","family":"Bagan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medicina Bucal Unit, Stomatology Department, Valencia University, 46010 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"285","DOI":"10.1016\/0030-4220(85)90313-5","article-title":"Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: A long-term study of thirty patients","volume":"60","author":"Hansen","year":"1985","journal-title":"Oral Surg. 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