Table 1.

Expression patterns of E-cadherin in normal oral mucosa, oral epithelial dysplasia, and oral squamous cell carcinoma

E-cadherin expression52,54–61,69,70	NOM	OED	OSCC
Cell membrane	High	Decreaseda (except Lopes et al.59)	Decreasedab (except Lopes et al.59)
Cytoplasm	None (Kaur et al.54 indicate occasional expression)	None (except Kyrodimou et al.61)	Increasedab
Nucleus	None	None	None

NOM: normal oral mucosa; OED: oral epithelial dysplasia; OSCC: oral squamous cell carcinoma

^acompared to NOM

^bcompared to OED

Adapted from Yim⁵³