Abstract Rhinoscleroma is a chronic infectious condition found mainly in patients living underdeveloped regions. It affects the respiratory tract (in 95% of cases nasal cavity first affected), but it can also involve orbit, middle ear, lip, gums and cutaneous tissue. linked to infection with Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis. Females are far more frequently affected than males. Symptoms typically app...

Objectives: One of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon in children. An early limited lexicon can also lead to limited performances in other language areas. This study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 month-old children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas. Materials: The MacArthur-Bat...

A 38-year-old woman was referred to the department of Oral Pathology at the Universidade Paulista, Goiânia, Brazil, complaining of multiple painful ulcers on the gum and upper lip mucosa. The patient was six month pregnant and had regularly attended prenatal visits. The patient had a history of weight loss due to inability to swallow solid foods in the last two months. Also, the patient complai...

BACKGROUND Trichoadenoma of Nikolowski, who describe the first cases in 1958, is a rare and benign tumor of the hair follicle. It is well-differentiated and slowly-growing. The clinical appearance of Trichoadenoma (TA) can be similar to basal cell carcinoma or epidermal cyst. RESULTS We describe a 44-year-old male who was referred for nodular lesion on the upper lip and a TA was diagnosed. Or...

OBJECTIVE To improve prebiopsy diagnostic accuracy and surgical management of pigmented appearing lesions on the lips, particularly melanoma, using in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM). STUDY DESIGN Prospective case series over a 12-month period between 2015 and 2016. The setting was two specialist dermatology referral centers with expertise in confocal microscopy. The study populati...

Cystadenoma, a common benign tumor derived from glandular tissue, generally occurs in the appendix, ovaries, kidney, or pancreas. While rare in the oral and maxillofacial region, they do sometimes occur in the parotid or minor salivary glands. We report a case of cystadenoma arising in the upper lip region. The patient was a 37-year-old woman referred to our hospital with a painless mass on the...

OBJECTIVES Evaluating data of patients affected by oral mucoceles, examined at the Unit of Oral Medicine and Pathology of the University of Milan between January 1994 and December 2008. STUDY DESIGN Concise review on oral mucoceles and analysis of the clinical files of patients who underwent excisional biopsy (patient age, medical history, diagnosis, date and site of the biopsy, histopatholog...

CASE SUMMARY A 9-year-old spayed female domestic shorthair cat was examined for swelling of the right upper lip. The cat had been receiving oral ciclosporin A for eosinophilic plaques. The swelling appeared clinically and cytologically consistent with an abscess; exudate was cultured and treatment consisted of antibiotic therapy and surgical curettage. Five months of antibiotic therapy with thr...