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Oral Leiomyoma in a Pediatric Patient: A Diagnostic Challenge
A nodular lesion of the tongue incorporates a spectrum of entities from reactive to malignancy. A diagnostic dilemma arises when a nodular, solitary, and firm submucosal mass appears in the oral cavity of a patient. To reach a definitive diagnosis, a crucial investigation protocol needs to be follow...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10382252/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37519627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41107 |
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author | Zope, Amit Banerjee, Satyabrat Deshmukh, Gargi Syed, Junaid A Sharma, Manish |
author_facet | Zope, Amit Banerjee, Satyabrat Deshmukh, Gargi Syed, Junaid A Sharma, Manish |
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description | A nodular lesion of the tongue incorporates a spectrum of entities from reactive to malignancy. A diagnostic dilemma arises when a nodular, solitary, and firm submucosal mass appears in the oral cavity of a patient. To reach a definitive diagnosis, a crucial investigation protocol needs to be followed. Leiomyomas are benign tumors that rarely occur in the oral cavity. They usually affect patients within the fourth to fifth decades of life. We report a rare case of leiomyoma of the tongue in a 12-year-old child patient. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed the positivity of tumor cells for alpha-smooth muscle actin (SMA). Surgical excision of such lesions is the treatment of choice, with a low recurrence rate. Our patient was asymptomatic and tumor-free at the follow-up visit after two years. |
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spelling | pubmed-103822522023-07-30 Oral Leiomyoma in a Pediatric Patient: A Diagnostic Challenge Zope, Amit Banerjee, Satyabrat Deshmukh, Gargi Syed, Junaid A Sharma, Manish Cureus Pediatrics A nodular lesion of the tongue incorporates a spectrum of entities from reactive to malignancy. A diagnostic dilemma arises when a nodular, solitary, and firm submucosal mass appears in the oral cavity of a patient. To reach a definitive diagnosis, a crucial investigation protocol needs to be followed. Leiomyomas are benign tumors that rarely occur in the oral cavity. They usually affect patients within the fourth to fifth decades of life. We report a rare case of leiomyoma of the tongue in a 12-year-old child patient. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed the positivity of tumor cells for alpha-smooth muscle actin (SMA). Surgical excision of such lesions is the treatment of choice, with a low recurrence rate. Our patient was asymptomatic and tumor-free at the follow-up visit after two years. Cureus 2023-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10382252/ /pubmed/37519627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41107 Text en Copyright © 2023, Zope et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Pediatrics Zope, Amit Banerjee, Satyabrat Deshmukh, Gargi Syed, Junaid A Sharma, Manish Oral Leiomyoma in a Pediatric Patient: A Diagnostic Challenge |
title | Oral Leiomyoma in a Pediatric Patient: A Diagnostic Challenge |
title_full | Oral Leiomyoma in a Pediatric Patient: A Diagnostic Challenge |
title_fullStr | Oral Leiomyoma in a Pediatric Patient: A Diagnostic Challenge |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral Leiomyoma in a Pediatric Patient: A Diagnostic Challenge |
title_short | Oral Leiomyoma in a Pediatric Patient: A Diagnostic Challenge |
title_sort | oral leiomyoma in a pediatric patient: a diagnostic challenge |
topic | Pediatrics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10382252/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37519627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41107 |
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