Congenital Gingival Granular Cell Tumor: A Case Report

The congenital gingival granular cell tumor (CGCT), also as known as congenital epulis, is an unusual benign oral mucosal lesion in newborns. A two-day-old female patient was admitted to the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Gulhane Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey with her family, and an intraora...

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Autores principales: Yıldırım, Ceren, Zerener, Tamer, Şençimen, Metin, Akgün, Özlem Martı, Altuğ, Hasan Ayberk, ÇİÇEK, Ali Fuat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of Dentistry Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5338180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28293667
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Sumario:The congenital gingival granular cell tumor (CGCT), also as known as congenital epulis, is an unusual benign oral mucosal lesion in newborns. A two-day-old female patient was admitted to the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Gulhane Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey with her family, and an intraoral examination showed a CGCT located in the buccal region of the maxillary right first primary molar. In this report, we present a case of CGCT in a newborn.

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