Intramucosal melanotic nevi – A case report of an unusual gingival enlargement

Intramucosal melanotic nevus with multiple polypoid presentations in oral cavity is rare; though single nevus is not uncommon. Nevi are benign proliferations of nevus cells either in the epithelium or in the subepithelial stroma. They are best categorized as hamartomas rather than true neoplasm. We...

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Autor principal: Agrawal, Jyoti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23869134
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-124X.113087
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description Intramucosal melanotic nevus with multiple polypoid presentations in oral cavity is rare; though single nevus is not uncommon. Nevi are benign proliferations of nevus cells either in the epithelium or in the subepithelial stroma. They are best categorized as hamartomas rather than true neoplasm. We present a case of intramucosal melanotic nevi in a 26-year-old male patient, which clinically resembled hereditary fibrous gingival enlargement.
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spelling pubmed-37137592013-07-18 Intramucosal melanotic nevi – A case report of an unusual gingival enlargement Agrawal, Jyoti J Indian Soc Periodontol Case Report Intramucosal melanotic nevus with multiple polypoid presentations in oral cavity is rare; though single nevus is not uncommon. Nevi are benign proliferations of nevus cells either in the epithelium or in the subepithelial stroma. They are best categorized as hamartomas rather than true neoplasm. We present a case of intramucosal melanotic nevi in a 26-year-old male patient, which clinically resembled hereditary fibrous gingival enlargement. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3713759/ /pubmed/23869134 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-124X.113087 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology 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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Intramucosal melanotic nevi – A case report of an unusual gingival enlargement
title Intramucosal melanotic nevi – A case report of an unusual gingival enlargement
title_full Intramucosal melanotic nevi – A case report of an unusual gingival enlargement
title_fullStr Intramucosal melanotic nevi – A case report of an unusual gingival enlargement
title_full_unstemmed Intramucosal melanotic nevi – A case report of an unusual gingival enlargement
title_short Intramucosal melanotic nevi – A case report of an unusual gingival enlargement
title_sort intramucosal melanotic nevi – a case report of an unusual gingival enlargement
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23869134
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-124X.113087
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