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Atypical histiocytic granuloma with eosinophilia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

O. Ankjæergaard*
Affiliation:
From the ENT department, Hillerød County Hospital, Hillerød and the Institute of Pathology, Hillerød
K. D. Lawaetz
Affiliation:
From the ENT department, Hillerød County Hospital, Hillerød and the Institute of Pathology, Hillerød
U. K. Andreassen
Affiliation:
From the ENT department, Hillerød County Hospital, Hillerød and the Institute of Pathology, Hillerød
*
Ole Ankjaergaard The Institute of Pathology, Hillerød County Hospital, 3400 Hillerød – DK.

Abstract

Atypical histiocytic granuloma in the oral mucosa has recently been described as a benign non-neoplastic ulcero-proliferative lesion of histiocytic origin with eosinophilia. The disease is confined to the oral mucosa where the lesion is solitary. These lesions, which heal spontaneously, are not associated with systemic disease or dissemination.

This report deals with such a case, and it stresses the benign nature of the lesion despite the worrying clinical and microscopic appearance.

The morphological diagnosis was substantiated by the use of a series of immunohistochemical reactions.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1988

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