ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: Necrotising Sialometaplasia is a benign self limiting reactive condition of major and minor salivary glands, which can arouse suspicion for malignancy, clinically and histopathologically. Here, we report a case of 38-year-old female with a painful ulcer on the palate. The case enlightens the importance of clinicopathologic correlation and diligent follow up in diagnosis and management of the case.
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/pathology , Head and Neck Neoplasms/pathology , Mouth Neoplasms/pathology , Oral Ulcer/pathology , Salivary Glands, Minor/pathology , Sialometaplasia, Necrotizing/pathology , Adult , Biopsy , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Oral Ulcer/surgery , Predictive Value of Tests , Salivary Glands, Minor/surgery , Sialometaplasia, Necrotizing/surgery , Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and NeckABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: Tuberculosis is a chronic granulomatous lesion, which primarily has an affinity for the lungs. It can involve other sites like lymph nodes, kidney, oral cavity. Infection of the oral cavity by M. tuberculosis can be as a Primary infection or as a Secondary infection. Primary presentation of oral tuberculosis is in the form of the chronic non healing ulcer. A Primary infection or an Asymptomatic Secondary infection can impose a great diagnostic dilemma, as it may mimic neoplasia. Here we present a case of a 32-year-old asymptomatic female with secondary infection.
