Peripheral ossifying fibroma

A case of peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) in the mandibular gingiva of a 17-year-old male is described. The lesion was asymptomatic, firm, pink, and present on the lingual alveolar mucosa interdentally between 43 and 44. Radiographic investigations revealed no significant findings. Excisional bio...

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Autores principales: Dahiya, Parveen, Kamal, Reet, Saini, Gaurav, Agarwal, Shweta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22690061
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.95983
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author Dahiya, Parveen
Kamal, Reet
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description A case of peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) in the mandibular gingiva of a 17-year-old male is described. The lesion was asymptomatic, firm, pink, and present on the lingual alveolar mucosa interdentally between 43 and 44. Radiographic investigations revealed no significant findings. Excisional biopsy was performed for the lesion. Microscopic findings confirmed the diagnosis of POF.
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spelling pubmed-33617882012-06-11 Peripheral ossifying fibroma Dahiya, Parveen Kamal, Reet Saini, Gaurav Agarwal, Shweta J Nat Sci Biol Med Case Report A case of peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) in the mandibular gingiva of a 17-year-old male is described. The lesion was asymptomatic, firm, pink, and present on the lingual alveolar mucosa interdentally between 43 and 44. Radiographic investigations revealed no significant findings. Excisional biopsy was performed for the lesion. Microscopic findings confirmed the diagnosis of POF. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3361788/ /pubmed/22690061 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.95983 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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