Background and Purpose: Diabetic patients are more susceptible to oral candidiasis infection than non-diabetics due to the factors promoting oral carriage of Candida. Several factors can increase colonization of Candida species in the oral cavity such as xerostomia, which reduces the salivary flow and is a salivary pH disorder. In the current study, we aimed to identify and compare the coloniza...

Tuberculosis (TB) of the tongue is not a common finding diagnosis, even if consider endemic areas. Tuberculosis of the tongue sometimes can mimic lingual neoplasm. Oral tuberculosis is rarely primary as mechanism, and frequently secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis. There are many suspect lesions that can be classified as tuberculosis, such as tumor mass, ulcerative lesion or fissure. It is very...

BACKGROUND Dermographism is a type of physical urticaria that can be induced by writing on the skin. It occurs in 2-5% of the population and is considered to be a normal physiological phenomenon. However, in a small subset of patients, it can be symptomatic and may affect the quality of life. The etiology of this disease remains unclear. CASE REPORT Herein, we present a case of dermographism ...

Cases 2 and 3 Cases 2 and 3 are related to smaller lipomas, most commonly found in the oral cavity. In both cases, the patients were females, with ages ranging between 30 and 45 years, respectively. In case 2, the lesion was in the inferior lingual region; and in case 3, it was in the jugal mucosa (Figure 1). Both were treated by surgical excision of the whole lesion and the material was referr...

Otorhinolaryngology Clinics: An International Journal, May-September 2009;1(1):7-14 7 Precancerous Lesions of Oral Cavity Chris de Souza, Uday Pawar, Pankaj Chaturvedi Honorary ENT Surgeon, Tata Memorial Hospital, Lilavati Hospital, Holy Family Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Resident, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Associate Professor, Head and Neck Oncosurgery, Tata M...

Among oral lesions, we encounter a series of malignant epithelial lesions that go through clinical and histopathologic processes in order to be diagnosed. Identifying these processes along with the etiology knowledge of these lesions is very important in prevention and early treatments. Dysplasia is the step preceding the formation of squamous cell carcinoma in lesions which have the potential ...

Fibrosarcoma has been defined as a malignant tumor of the fibroblasts that shows no other evidence of cellular differentiation and is capable of recurrence and metastasis. Fibrosarcomas are rare but may occur anywhere in the body, most commonly in the retroperitoneum, thigh, knee and distal extremities. Fibrosarcoma is uncommon in the head and neck region and constitutes about 1% of all the mal...

Primary malignant melanoma of oral cavity is very rare. A case of oral melanoma who died due to metastasis a year after the excision of the primary lesion is reported along with a brief review of the literature.

tongue base lesions have a diverse and extensive etiology. one of the benign tongue base lesions is schwannoma. schwannoma and neurofibroma are two tumors of the peripheral nerves originating in the nerve sheaths. schwannoma account for just over 1% of benign tumors which have been reported in the oral cavity and base of the tongue and with regard to its involved area in the oral cavity is very...

Verrucous carcinoma has a special propensity to mimic benign lesions of the oral cavity. A case of the oral verrucous carcinoma in maxillary alveolar ridge, extending to buccal vestibule, cheek, and labial mucosa, which was diagnosed and initially treated as chronic candidiasis, is presented. Clinical, histopathological, and therapeutic considerations related to diagnosis of the verrucous carci...