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Indolent palatal swelling: Catch 22

We present an interesting but intriguing case of an indolent palatal swelling. The lesion was asymptomatic causing little discomfort to the patient and thus was an incidental clinical finding. Provisional diagnosis was a benign, minor salivary gland tumor. Clinical differential diagnoses included be...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Preeti, Wadhwan, Vijay, Kumar, K. V. Arun, Venkatesh, Arvind, Thapa, Timsy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28356700
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.201352
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author Sharma, Preeti
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description We present an interesting but intriguing case of an indolent palatal swelling. The lesion was asymptomatic causing little discomfort to the patient and thus was an incidental clinical finding. Provisional diagnosis was a benign, minor salivary gland tumor. Clinical differential diagnoses included benign lymphoepithelial lesion or mucus extravasation phenomenon. Nevertheless, we also considered malignancies such as mucoepidermoid carcinoma, lymphoma, and neoplasm of the maxillary sinus. However, the histopathology revealed a rare clinicopathologic entity prompting immediate treatment of the lesion.
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spelling pubmed-53579312017-03-29 Indolent palatal swelling: Catch 22 Sharma, Preeti Wadhwan, Vijay Kumar, K. V. Arun Venkatesh, Arvind Thapa, Timsy Natl J Maxillofac Surg Clinicopathologic Conference We present an interesting but intriguing case of an indolent palatal swelling. The lesion was asymptomatic causing little discomfort to the patient and thus was an incidental clinical finding. Provisional diagnosis was a benign, minor salivary gland tumor. Clinical differential diagnoses included benign lymphoepithelial lesion or mucus extravasation phenomenon. Nevertheless, we also considered malignancies such as mucoepidermoid carcinoma, lymphoma, and neoplasm of the maxillary sinus. However, the histopathology revealed a rare clinicopathologic entity prompting immediate treatment of the lesion. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5357931/ /pubmed/28356700 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.201352 Text en Copyright: © 2017 National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Indolent palatal swelling: Catch 22
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