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Neeharika Mortha1, Sumit Majumdar2, Divya Uppala1
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Microbiology and Forensic Odontology, GITAM Dental College and Hospital, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Abstract:
The term "synovial sarcoma (SS)" is a histological error, a misnomer as it neither arises from nor differentiates toward synovium. Head and neck region is the most commonly affected region after extremities, representing 5% of all cases. This case report focuses to discuss a case of a SS that was diagnosed after an inadvertent root canal therapy. A 46-year-old male came to the outpatient department with a chief complaint of pain and swelling in his upper right back tooth region since 15 days. An ulceroproliferative mass of was observed protruding from the gingivobuccal sulcus from 11 to 15 tooth region obliterating the vestibule.