Osteocartilaginous Choriostoma of Palatine Tonsil: a Rare Hidden Entity

A choriostoma is an aggregate of microscopically normal cells or tissues which occurs in an aberrant location. It follows a benign course, rarely seen in head and neck region. A choriostoma of the palatine tonsil is very rare; less than 10 cases were reported till date. A 11-year-old male referred t...

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Autores principales: Bairwa, Shilpa, Sethi, Bhawna, Singh, Pawan, Sangwaiya, Ashok, Kalhan, Shivani, Dutta, Satya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Society of Pathology 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6358567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30774688
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author Bairwa, Shilpa
Sethi, Bhawna
Singh, Pawan
Sangwaiya, Ashok
Kalhan, Shivani
Dutta, Satya
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Sethi, Bhawna
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description A choriostoma is an aggregate of microscopically normal cells or tissues which occurs in an aberrant location. It follows a benign course, rarely seen in head and neck region. A choriostoma of the palatine tonsil is very rare; less than 10 cases were reported till date. A 11-year-old male referred to ENT OPD with chronic tonsillitis and underwent tonsillectomy. The histopathological examination revealed the unexpected presence of cartilage and bone in both tonsils.
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spelling pubmed-63585672019-02-15 Osteocartilaginous Choriostoma of Palatine Tonsil: a Rare Hidden Entity Bairwa, Shilpa Sethi, Bhawna Singh, Pawan Sangwaiya, Ashok Kalhan, Shivani Dutta, Satya Iran J Pathol Case Report A choriostoma is an aggregate of microscopically normal cells or tissues which occurs in an aberrant location. It follows a benign course, rarely seen in head and neck region. A choriostoma of the palatine tonsil is very rare; less than 10 cases were reported till date. A 11-year-old male referred to ENT OPD with chronic tonsillitis and underwent tonsillectomy. The histopathological examination revealed the unexpected presence of cartilage and bone in both tonsils. Iranian Society of Pathology 2018 2018-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6358567/ /pubmed/30774688 Text en © 2018, IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-noncommercial 4.0 International License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bairwa, Shilpa
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Sangwaiya, Ashok
Kalhan, Shivani
Dutta, Satya
Osteocartilaginous Choriostoma of Palatine Tonsil: a Rare Hidden Entity
title Osteocartilaginous Choriostoma of Palatine Tonsil: a Rare Hidden Entity
title_full Osteocartilaginous Choriostoma of Palatine Tonsil: a Rare Hidden Entity
title_fullStr Osteocartilaginous Choriostoma of Palatine Tonsil: a Rare Hidden Entity
title_full_unstemmed Osteocartilaginous Choriostoma of Palatine Tonsil: a Rare Hidden Entity
title_short Osteocartilaginous Choriostoma of Palatine Tonsil: a Rare Hidden Entity
title_sort osteocartilaginous choriostoma of palatine tonsil: a rare hidden entity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6358567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30774688
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