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Twelve cases of a heretofore unreported minor salivary gland disease have been reported. Although an infectious cause is suspected for this self-limiting inflammatory process, the actual cause remains unknown. It typically presents as a unilateral, erythematous, nonuclerated but painful, solitary firm swelling of the posterior hard palate. Patients are most often young white men who have spent several weeks in a new environment with a group of people living in close quarters such as military barracks.
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Sialadenitis/pathology , Adolescent , Adult , Humans , Male , Necrosis , Palate , Salivary Glands, Minor/pathology , Salivary Glands, Minor/ultrastructure , Sialadenitis/etiologyABSTRACT
The role of computed tomography (CT) and CT numbers in the evaluation of fibro-osseous and cementum-containing lesions is discussed. The computed tomographic findings in a case of cemento-ossifying fibroma involving the maxilla and maxillary sinus are presented.
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Fibroma/diagnostic imaging , Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Odontogenic Tumors/diagnostic imaging , Osteoma/diagnostic imaging , Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Adult , Dental Cementum/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Male , Tooth Diseases/diagnostic imagingSubject(s)
Mandibular Diseases/pathology , Xanthomatosis/pathology , Adult , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
The clinical and histologic findings from a study of forty-one cases of nodular fasciitis occurring in the orofacial region are presented. These findings reveal no essential differences in the biologic conduct of nodular fasciitis, whether it occurs in the orofacial area or in its preferred sites, i.e., the extremities and trunk. Various histologic findings are illustrated, none of which, including central necrosis, are indicative of any adverse biologic behavior. Accumulation of a large series of nodular fasciitis of the orofacial region indicates that this anatomic site is perhaps uncommonly but certainly not rarely affected. Pathologists, therefore, need not be so reluctant, as was found in this study, about assigning the diagnosis of nodular fasciitis to orofacial lesions.