A rare case report of pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: An unusual clinical presentation

Pleomorphic adenoma is the most common salivary gland tumor which accounts for about 60% of all salivary neoplasms. It is also known as “mixed tumor because of its wide cytomorphologic diversity”. Pleomorphic adenoma salivary glands mostly occurs on the palate, but the involvement of the upper lip i...

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Autores principales: Prakash, Chander, Tanwar, Nishi, Dhokwal, Sushil, Devi, Anju
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9651239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36393934
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.NJMS_92_20
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author Prakash, Chander
Tanwar, Nishi
Dhokwal, Sushil
Devi, Anju
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description Pleomorphic adenoma is the most common salivary gland tumor which accounts for about 60% of all salivary neoplasms. It is also known as “mixed tumor because of its wide cytomorphologic diversity”. Pleomorphic adenoma salivary glands mostly occurs on the palate, but the involvement of the upper lip is rare. The present report describes a case of a 62-year-old male with asymptomatic firm nodular swelling attached with upper lip which was later diagnosed as pleomorphic adenoma in the excisional biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-96512392022-11-15 A rare case report of pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: An unusual clinical presentation Prakash, Chander Tanwar, Nishi Dhokwal, Sushil Devi, Anju Natl J Maxillofac Surg Case Report Pleomorphic adenoma is the most common salivary gland tumor which accounts for about 60% of all salivary neoplasms. It is also known as “mixed tumor because of its wide cytomorphologic diversity”. Pleomorphic adenoma salivary glands mostly occurs on the palate, but the involvement of the upper lip is rare. The present report describes a case of a 62-year-old male with asymptomatic firm nodular swelling attached with upper lip which was later diagnosed as pleomorphic adenoma in the excisional biopsy. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-08 2022-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9651239/ /pubmed/36393934 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.NJMS_92_20 Text en Copyright: © 2022 National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title A rare case report of pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: An unusual clinical presentation
title_full A rare case report of pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: An unusual clinical presentation
title_fullStr A rare case report of pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: An unusual clinical presentation
title_full_unstemmed A rare case report of pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: An unusual clinical presentation
title_short A rare case report of pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: An unusual clinical presentation
title_sort rare case report of pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: an unusual clinical presentation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9651239/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.NJMS_92_20
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