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Oral cysticercosis--report of six cases
1Department of Pathology, Maulana Azad Medical College, Bahadurshah Zafar Marg, C-367 Saraswati Vihar, Pitampura, Delhi, 34 India.
Background:
Cysticercosis cellulosae rarely involves the oral region in humans.
Methods:
Six cases of oral cysticercosis were diagnosed, three each in lips and buccal mucosa. Diagnosis was made by characteristic gross and histopathologic appearances.
Results:
Of 146 cases of cysticercosis, 6 (4.1%) were of the oral cavity. All 6 cases were initially seen with painless swellings. Clinical differential diagnosis ranged from retention cyst, lipoma, fibroma, neurofibroma, and angular stomatitis. Histopathologic examination revealed cysticercus larvae.
Conclusions:
The oral cavity is a rare site of involvement by cysticercosis, even in an endemic area. Histopathologic findings of the excised cyst are diagnostic of the lesion.