Cavernous Hemangioma of the Tongue

Hemangioma is a benign tumor of dilated blood vessels. It is most commonly seen in the head and neck region and rarely in the oral cavity. Hemangiomas in the oral cavity are always of clinical importance and require appropriate treatment. We report here a case of a 34-year-old female patient with a...

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Autores principales: Kripal, Krishna, Rajan, Senthil, Ropak, Beena, Jayanti, Ipsita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3773376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24073342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/898692
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author Kripal, Krishna
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description Hemangioma is a benign tumor of dilated blood vessels. It is most commonly seen in the head and neck region and rarely in the oral cavity. Hemangiomas in the oral cavity are always of clinical importance and require appropriate treatment. We report here a case of a 34-year-old female patient with a swelling on the lateral surface of tongue which did not respond to the sclerosing agent and was finally confirmed as cavernous hemangioma on histological evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-37733762013-09-26 Cavernous Hemangioma of the Tongue Kripal, Krishna Rajan, Senthil Ropak, Beena Jayanti, Ipsita Case Rep Dent Case Report Hemangioma is a benign tumor of dilated blood vessels. It is most commonly seen in the head and neck region and rarely in the oral cavity. Hemangiomas in the oral cavity are always of clinical importance and require appropriate treatment. We report here a case of a 34-year-old female patient with a swelling on the lateral surface of tongue which did not respond to the sclerosing agent and was finally confirmed as cavernous hemangioma on histological evaluation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3773376/ /pubmed/24073342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/898692 Text en Copyright © 2013 Krishna Kripal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kripal, Krishna
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title_short Cavernous Hemangioma of the Tongue
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3773376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24073342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/898692
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