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Unusual presentation of lipoma on the tongue
Beena R Varma1, Krishna Santhosh Kumar2, Rhea Susan Verghese3
1Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Abstract:
Lipomas are benign soft tissue neoplasm which rarely occur in the oral cavity. Of the total reported cases of lipoma, only about 15% to 20% of cases have occurred in the head and neck region and the tongue is an even rarer site with only about 4% of the reported cases occurring in that region. They are slow growing and usually asymptomatic in nature. When it grows to a large size, it can hinder the physiological processes that are associated with the area. This case report describes the diagnostic features of tongue lipoma with a brief review of literature.
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