Mouth - Oral cavity

• oral plasma cell granuloma
  14 November

  Definition : An oral plasma cell granuloma (OPCG) is a rare reactive tumor such as proliferation composed chiefly of plasmacytic infiltrate. Both clinically and histopathologically, it may be misinterpreted as various pathological entities thus necessitating the complete evaluation of patient and proper histopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of the tissue.
  Plasma cell granuloma (PCG) is a rare, nonneoplastic lesion consisting of a proliferation of inflammatory cells (...)

• oral Herpes infections
  21 August

  buccal Herpes infections PO
  Macroscopy
  mucosal vesicles or mucosal bullae with clear serous fluid
  painful shallow ulcers
  Microscopy
  intracellualr edema and intercellular edema ( acantholysis )
  intranuclear inclusions
  multinucleate polykaryons (giant cells)

• oral focal epithelial hyperplasia
  21 March

  Heck’s disease PO
  Definition: Focal epithelial hyperplasia is a discrete, recurrent papillary lesions on oral mucosa in Native American and Eskimo children, associated with HPV 1, 13, 32.

• oral mucosa
  5 February

  buccal mucosa
  Anomalies (Examples)
  oral mucosal leukoplakia

• proliferative verrucous leukoplakia
  27 December 2017

  Images
  Macroscopy https://twitter.com/drwilgonzalez/status/945777957091663873

• leukoplakia
  27 December 2017

  oral leukoplakia WKP PO
  Definition: Leukoplakia generally refers to a firmly attached white patch on a mucous membrane. It can be associated with an increased risk of cancer when an epithelial dysplasia is associated.
  The edges of the lesion are typically abrupt and the lesion changes with time. Advanced forms may develop red patches. There are generally no other symptoms.
  It usually occurs within the mouth, although sometimes mucosa in other parts of the gastrointestinal tract, (...)

• alveolar mucosa
  14 November 2017

  lingual alveolar mucosa
  See also
  lingual alveolar mucosa

• acute necrotizing gingivitis
  14 November 2017

  trench mouth, Vincent stomatitis, ulcerative stomatitis
  Etiology
  Caused by fusospirochetal complex of microbes
  Synopsis
  Heals with scarring and blunting of interdental papillae
  May recur
  Predisposing factors
  poor oral hygien
  smoking
  emotional anguish
  age 12 - 29 years in U.S. and Northern Europe
  Macroscopy
  Highly inflamed mucosa
  enlargement of interdental (...)

• early oral squamous cell carcinoma
  27 June 2017

  Early Oral SCC
  Intraoperative Margin Assessment
  The surgical method of margin sampling affects local control, pathologists’ approach to margin sampling, and clarity of pathology reports.
  Studies have shown that exclusive reliance on tumor bed margins is associated with worse local control and should be avoided.
  En bloc resections and margins obtained from the resection specimen remain the “gold standard.”
  Successful surgical treatment of early carcinomas of the oral cavity relies on close (...)

• irritation fibroma
  16 May 2017

  Images
  Irritation fibroma https://twitter.com/Helena_Path/status/864494000186822656

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