White Sponge Nevus: A Case Report

White sponge nevus (WSN) is a rare hereditary dyskeratotic hyperplasia of mucous membranes. It is an autosomal dominant disorder with variable penetrance. We report a case of WSN in a healthy 21-year-old male with no history of familial involvement. A white smooth plaque with no erythema or other st...

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Autores principales: Aghbali, Amirala, Pouralibaba, Firouz, Eslami, Hossein, Pakdel, Farzaneh, Jamali, Zahra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23230487
http://dx.doi.org/10.5681/joddd.2009.017
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author Aghbali, Amirala
Pouralibaba, Firouz
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description White sponge nevus (WSN) is a rare hereditary dyskeratotic hyperplasia of mucous membranes. It is an autosomal dominant disorder with variable penetrance. We report a case of WSN in a healthy 21-year-old male with no history of familial involvement. A white smooth plaque with no erythema or other structural abnormalities was observed, which confirmed the diagnosis of WSN histopathologically.
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spelling pubmed-35172902012-12-10 White Sponge Nevus: A Case Report Aghbali, Amirala Pouralibaba, Firouz Eslami, Hossein Pakdel, Farzaneh Jamali, Zahra J Dent Res Dent Clin Dent Prospects Case Report White sponge nevus (WSN) is a rare hereditary dyskeratotic hyperplasia of mucous membranes. It is an autosomal dominant disorder with variable penetrance. We report a case of WSN in a healthy 21-year-old male with no history of familial involvement. A white smooth plaque with no erythema or other structural abnormalities was observed, which confirmed the diagnosis of WSN histopathologically. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2009 2009-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3517290/ /pubmed/23230487 http://dx.doi.org/10.5681/joddd.2009.017 Text en © 2009 The Authors; Tabriz University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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