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Fibroma is reactive or neoplastic?

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Reactive to local trauma/irritation

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Most common tumor of oral cavity?

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Fibroma

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Fibroma is true neoplasm?

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no

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Histology of fibroma?

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unencapsulated, collagenized CT covered by SSE

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Treatment of fibroma?

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excision to r/o neoplasm

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Recurrence common or rare in fibroma?

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rare

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Fibroma clinical features:
Pigment:
Surface texture:
Sessile/pedunculated?

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Normal color (can be white from hyperkeratosis)
Smooth
Sessile

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Fibromas can be found where in oral cavity?

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anywhere

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Giant cell fibroma important histo feature?

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Stellate fibroblasts with several nuclei

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Variant of giant cell fibroma?

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Retrocuspid papilla

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Retrocuspid papilla location?

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bilateral, lingual to mand. canines

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Pyogenic granuloma aka?

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Lobular capillary hemangioma, pregnancy tumor

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Pyogenic granuloma bad name bc?

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neither pyogenic or granuloma

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Pyogenic granuloma clinical features?
Surface texture
color
Pedunc or sessile
Pain
Blood
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Smooth/lobulated
Pedunculated/sessile
Pink/red/purple, ulcerated
Bleeds easily

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Pyogenic granuloma new vs old difference

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Vascular when new, collagenized when old

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Pyogenic granuloma location?

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80% gingiva

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Variant of pyogenic granuloma arising in healing extraction socket?
Due to what?

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epulis granulomatosa due to bony sequestra in socket

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Pyogenic granuloma histopath features

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vascular granulation tissue

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Pyogenic granuloma treatment

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excise and remove irritants

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Pyogenic granuloma distinguished how from retrocuspid papilla?

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Pyogenic granuloma is erythematous or hemorrhagic while retrocuspid papilla is pink, small, and bilateral.

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Peripheral giant cell granuloma soft tissue counterpart to what?

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Central giant cell granuloma

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Peripheral giant cell granuloma occurs where

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Gingiva ONLY

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Peripheral giant cell granuloma differs from pyogenic granuloma how?

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more blue-purple, otherwise similar

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Radio features of Peripheral giant cell granuloma?

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cupping resorption of bone

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Peripheral giant cell granuloma origin might be soft or hard tissue, need to workup patient for what?
Hyperparathydoidism
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Peripheral giant cell granuloma histopath features (cells, deposits, and surface)
multinucleated giant cells with background of mesenchymal cells with mitoses, hemorrhage and hemosiderin, ulcerated mucosa overlying
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Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma occurs where
Gingiva ONLY
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``` Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma clinical features Surface Color Type What can happen to teeth ```
ulcerated, red-pink, Ped/Sess nodule, rare migration and loosening of teeth
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Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma histopath features
fibrous, mineralized product
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Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma can be easily mistaken for?
Pyogenic granuloma
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Lipoma usually occurs where
trunk or extremities, rarely in oral cavity
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What is #1 most common mesenchymal neoplasm?
Lipoma
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Lipoma clinical features?
soft, smooth, pink/yellow
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Granular cell tumor found where
Oral cavity, usually tongue
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Granular cell tumor color
pink or yellow
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Granular cell tumor cell differentiation
neural
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Granular cell tumor histopath features
pale, eosinophilic granular cytoplasm | pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia
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Congenital Epulis occurrence/age//location?
rare, newborns, alveolar ridge
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Congenital Epulis resembles?
Granular cell tumor
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Congenital Epulis gender predilection %
90% female
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Congenital Epulis histopath features similar to ? Exception?
Similar to granular cell tumor (abundant pale eosinophilic granular cytoplasm) but NO pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia
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Most common peripheral nerve tumor?
Neurofibroma
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Neurofibroma differentiation/histopath?
schwann/perineural cells, wavy nuclei, mast cells
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Neurofibromatosis how many forms? Most common?
8, Type 1 most common (90%)
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Neurofibromatosis causes what disease? Genetic source?
von Reck, autosomal dominant chromosome 17
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Neurofibromatosis clinical features
multiple neurofibromas on skin, oral Cafe au lait pigmentation - smooth macules Crowe sign - freckles on axilla Lisch Nodules - brown pigmentation on iris
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Oral manifestation of Neurofibromatosis?
50% enlarged fungiform papillae
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Schwannoma most common oral site?
tongue
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Schwannoma histopath features
encapsulated tumor
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Schwannoma 2 patterns?
Antoni Pattern A - streaming fascicles of spindle Schwann cells palisaded around acellular Veroclay bodies Antoni Pattern B - random spindle cells in loose myxomatous stroma
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Traumatic Neuroma happens why
transection or damage of nerve bundle leads to proliferation of neural tissue
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Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia - genetic passing?
autosomal dominant
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MEN Type 2 - three subtypes
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma syndrome MEN Type 2A MEN Type 2B
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MEN Type 2A - conditions (3)
Medullary carcinoma of thyroid (MCT) 95% pheochromocytoma of adrenal medulla 50% parathyroid hyperplasia/adenoma 25%
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MEN Type 2B - How related to type 2A?
same conditions + multiple mucosal neuromas
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MEN Type 2B clinical features?
Mucosal neuromas on eyes Oral neuromas - painless papules on lips and anterior tongue. MCT - ALMOST ALL PATIETNS, aggressive and metastatic, requires prophylactic thyroidectomy before age 1
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MEN Type 2B first sign of disease?
Oral neuromas
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MCT lab values
elevated serum/urinary calcitonin
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pheochyromocytomas lab values
urinary vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) and increase epi to norepi ratio
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Most common tumor of children
hemangioma of infancy
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Evolution of hemangioma of infancy?
proliferate 6-10 months before involution
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Vascular malformations happen when?
present at birth, persist
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Lymphatic malformation most common site? | Surface?
65% in head/neck region Most common on anterior tongue Pebbly
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Lymphatic malformation histopath?
proliferation of lymphatic vessels, valves

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