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Clinical features and histological description of tongue lesions in a large Northern Italian population
BACKGROUND: Only few studies on tongue lesions considered sizable populations, and contemporary literature does not provide a valid report regarding the epidemiology of tongue lesions within the Italian population. In this report, the histopathological and clinical appearance of 1.106 tongue lesions...
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Medicina Oral S.L.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26241456 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.20556 |
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author | Gambino, Alessio Carbone, Mario Arduino, Paolo-Giacomo Carrozzo, Marco Conrotto, Davide Tanteri, Carlotta Carbone, Lucio Elia, Alessandra Maragon, Zaira Broccoletti, Roberto |
author_facet | Gambino, Alessio Carbone, Mario Arduino, Paolo-Giacomo Carrozzo, Marco Conrotto, Davide Tanteri, Carlotta Carbone, Lucio Elia, Alessandra Maragon, Zaira Broccoletti, Roberto |
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description | BACKGROUND: Only few studies on tongue lesions considered sizable populations, and contemporary literature does not provide a valid report regarding the epidemiology of tongue lesions within the Italian population. In this report, the histopathological and clinical appearance of 1.106 tongue lesions from northern Italians are described and discussed. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The case records of patients referred for the diagnosis and management of tongue lesions, from October 1993 to October 2013, were reviewed. Histological data were also obtained and blindly reexamined. RESULTS: For instance, a biopsy performed on a lingual ulcer has a strong predicting association with a carcinoma, whereas a biopsy on a white lesion predicts for a leukoplakia or oral lichen planus. Moreover, a biopsy of erosion is representative of bullous diseases, whereas a biopsy on a verrucous-papillary lesion is significant for fibroma. Furthermore, carcinomas occur in the majority of cases on the lingual edge or pelvis, oral lichen planus is mainly seen on the edge, and fibromas mostly on the lingual tip. CONCLUSIONS: The high frequency of tongue involvement of such different diseases emphasizes the importance of histological characterization and that some diseases occur more frequently than others, with a peculiar clinical aspect and a more common area. In fact our survey can help the clinician in advancing diagnostic hypothesis, on the basis of the elementary lesion and its site of involvement. Key words:Tongue lesions, clinical appearance, histological description. |
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spelling | pubmed-45989242015-10-15 Clinical features and histological description of tongue lesions in a large Northern Italian population Gambino, Alessio Carbone, Mario Arduino, Paolo-Giacomo Carrozzo, Marco Conrotto, Davide Tanteri, Carlotta Carbone, Lucio Elia, Alessandra Maragon, Zaira Broccoletti, Roberto Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal Research BACKGROUND: Only few studies on tongue lesions considered sizable populations, and contemporary literature does not provide a valid report regarding the epidemiology of tongue lesions within the Italian population. In this report, the histopathological and clinical appearance of 1.106 tongue lesions from northern Italians are described and discussed. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The case records of patients referred for the diagnosis and management of tongue lesions, from October 1993 to October 2013, were reviewed. Histological data were also obtained and blindly reexamined. RESULTS: For instance, a biopsy performed on a lingual ulcer has a strong predicting association with a carcinoma, whereas a biopsy on a white lesion predicts for a leukoplakia or oral lichen planus. Moreover, a biopsy of erosion is representative of bullous diseases, whereas a biopsy on a verrucous-papillary lesion is significant for fibroma. Furthermore, carcinomas occur in the majority of cases on the lingual edge or pelvis, oral lichen planus is mainly seen on the edge, and fibromas mostly on the lingual tip. CONCLUSIONS: The high frequency of tongue involvement of such different diseases emphasizes the importance of histological characterization and that some diseases occur more frequently than others, with a peculiar clinical aspect and a more common area. In fact our survey can help the clinician in advancing diagnostic hypothesis, on the basis of the elementary lesion and its site of involvement. Key words:Tongue lesions, clinical appearance, histological description. Medicina Oral S.L. 2015-09 2015-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4598924/ /pubmed/26241456 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.20556 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Medicina Oral S.L. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ 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 work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Gambino, Alessio Carbone, Mario Arduino, Paolo-Giacomo Carrozzo, Marco Conrotto, Davide Tanteri, Carlotta Carbone, Lucio Elia, Alessandra Maragon, Zaira Broccoletti, Roberto Clinical features and histological description of tongue lesions in a large Northern Italian population |
title | Clinical features and histological description of tongue
lesions in a large Northern Italian population |
title_full | Clinical features and histological description of tongue
lesions in a large Northern Italian population |
title_fullStr | Clinical features and histological description of tongue
lesions in a large Northern Italian population |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinical features and histological description of tongue
lesions in a large Northern Italian population |
title_short | Clinical features and histological description of tongue
lesions in a large Northern Italian population |
title_sort | clinical features and histological description of tongue
lesions in a large northern italian population |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26241456 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.20556 |
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