Profesor Titular del Departamento de Diagnóstico Oral, de la Facultad de Odontología de Piracicaba-UNICAMP.

FORMACIÓN

• Cirujano-dentista (1971), de la Facultad de Odontología de Piracicaba, Universidad Estatal de Campinas;
• Maestro (1974), en Biología Celular y Tisular, la Universidad de São Paulo;
• Doctor (1975), en Biología Celular y Tisular, la Universidad de São Paulo;
• Post-Doctorado (19XX), UCL Eastman Dental Institute, London, Inglaterra.

PUBLICACIONES SELECCIONADAS

• Fonseca FP, de Vasconcelos Carvalho M, de Almeida OP, Rangel AL, Takizawa MC, Bueno AG, Vargas PA. Clinicopathologic analysis of 493 cases of salivary gland tumors in a Southern Brazilian population. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2012 Aug;114(2):230-9. PubMed PMID: 22769409.
• Fonseca FP, Ramos LM, Vargas PA, de Almeida OP, Lopes MA, Santos-Silva AR. Oral adenosquamous carcinoma: evidence that it arises from the surface mucosal epithelium. Histopathology. 2012 Aug;61(2):321-3. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2559.2012.04257.x. Epub 2012 Jun 13. PubMed PMID: 22690906.
• Gueiros LA, Gondak R, Jorge Júnior J, Coletta RD, Carvalho Ade A, Leão JC, de Almeida OP, Vargas PA. Increased number of Langerhans cells in oral lichen planus and oral lichenoid lesions. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2012 May;113(5):661-6. Epub 2012 Apr 12. PubMed PMID: 22668625.
• Gondak RO, Alves DB, Silva LF, Mauad T, Vargas PA. Depletion of Langerhans cells in the tongue from patients with advanced-stage acquired immune deficiency syndrome: relation to opportunistic infections. Histopathology. 2012 Feb;60(3):497-503. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2011.04068.x. Epub 2011 Dec 14. PubMed PMID: 22168427.
• Galvão CF, Gomes CC, Diniz MG, Vargas PA, de Paula AM, Mosqueda-Taylor A, Loyola AM, Gomez RS. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in tumour suppressor genes in benign and malignant mixed odontogenic tumours. J Oral Pathol Med. 2012 May;41(5):389-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.2011.01115.x. Epub 2011 Nov 15. PubMed PMID: 22082131.