12. Immune-mediated Disorders of the Oral Mucosa Flashcards

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Structural organization of SSE
From bottom to surface
– Stratum ____ (Basal or germinative layer)
– Stratum ____ (Spinous layer)
– Stratum ____ (Superficial layer, stratum corneum, keratin layer)

• Bulk of SSE > stratum \_\_\_\_
• In oral mucosa > non-ketatinized or para > the surface is stratum \_\_\_\_
	○ Para: \_\_\_\_ palate, attached gingi, \_\_\_\_ (both non and para for tongue, para are at tips, while valleys are non-keratinized)
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basal
spinosum
superficiale

spinosum
superficiale
hard
tongue

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Lichen planus
• Type ____ hypersensitivity reaction

• Immune-mediated disorders - type IV
• Type I - anaphylaxis - mediated by \_\_\_\_
• Type II - antibody-antigen - disrupts functionality (\_\_\_\_)
• Type III - \_\_\_\_ deposition - antibodies bind to antigen, but what causes diseases it activates PMNs which cause the damage
• Type IV - \_\_\_\_, lymphocytes - delayed type hypersensitivity reaction
	○ Poison ivy, contact allergy, latex
	○ LICHEN PLANUS IS TYPE \_\_\_\_, not sure what cells are reacting to
• Lesion in skin - purple, pruitic, polygonal and papular
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IV
IgG
myasthenia gravis
immune complex
cell-mediated
IV
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Oral lichen planus

• Reticular
– Usually ____
– Interlacing white lines (____)
– History of waxing and waning

• Erosive
– ____
– Ulcerated mucosa
– May be restricted to ____

• \_\_\_\_ always warrants therapy - ulcerations; may see white striations, but often times you don't
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asymptomatic
wickham's striae
symptomatic
gingiva
erosive
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  • Reticular LP

* ____ striations, lace-like pattern

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white

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• LP of ____ tongue

○ Disregard hyperkeratosis in middle, but peripherally you see ____-like pattern

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dorsal

lace

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  • LP of lips
    • ____
    • Esthetically displeasing, but not concerning as clinicians; doesn’t really warrant ____
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asymptomatic

treatment

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  • ____ LP
    • Tongue, buccal mucosa
    • May see ____ (middle) surrounding the ulceration
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erosive/ulcerating

striations

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Desquamative gingivitis
• Non-specific ____ term
– Gingiva appears ____ and ulcerated
• May be due to variety of different diseases

desquamative gingivitis is NOT a diagnosis; there is an array of diseases that manifests with same ____ manifestation; most common one being erosive LP

if you have PT who has focal or diffusively, peeling painful raw gums, it’s called ____ gingivitis- it’s a descriptive term not a diagnosis
NOT a diagnosis, just a description term
like the terms leukoplakia and erythroplakia ( white or red lesion)

A

clinical
clinical
desquamative

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Desquamative gingivitis
so we are adding ____ to this Differential Diagnosis list this List will grow as we learn more disorders.. as we move to D2 year we will keep on adding on to the list.

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erosive lichen planus

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Biopsy

  • Excisional
  • Incisional

Biopsy of ulceration MUST include portion of adjacent intact ____

• Excisional is \_\_\_\_
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mucosa

curative

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  • L: look at basal layer, you don’t see prominent basal cells; they undergo ____ degeneration > undergo damage
    • M: pink circlular structures > ____ bodies, or civatte bodies > represent apoptotic cells > epi cells
    • R: inflam infiltrate > loads of ____ > at the interface bt the epi and connective tissue
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hydropic
colloid
lymphocytes

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Basement membrane

• Lymphos are recruited via chemokines and other chem mediators, and these cells are typically \_\_\_\_ (cyto T) > physically damaging the epithelium > some cells undergo apoptosis (\_\_\_\_ bodies)
• Treatment with \_\_\_\_ > prevent the formaiton/syntehsis of lymphocytes > how you treat LP
	○ If lesion is localized/diffsue > skin mucosal lesion: systemic steroid; oral cavity: topical steroid, liquid or cream form 
	○ High potency, int potency, low potency
		§ High: \_\_\_\_
		§ Int: \_\_\_\_
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CD8+
colloid
steroids
clobetzole
fluocinode
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LP-like lesions
Lichenoid mucositis
– \_\_\_\_ allergy
– \_\_\_\_ allergy
Systemic conditions
– \_\_\_\_ erythematosus
– Graft vs host disease
• Arises as lichen planus clinically > LM > umbrella of diagnoses
	○ Contact: \_\_\_\_, peppermint, metal/alloy/gold
	○ Drug: \_\_\_\_, hypertension, and some for transplant rejection prevention

* Drug reaction - \_\_\_\_ - hypothyroidism
* Discoid lupus/lupus erthematosus
* GvH disease > can mimic LP clinically, but \_\_\_\_ it's different
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contact
drug
lupus
cinnamon
hyperthyroid

synthryoid
microscopically

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Lichenoid mucositis
• Medications
• Flavoring agents
• Dental materials

• Interface reaction, and you have a \_\_\_\_ infiltrate > lympho's are wrapped around BV deep within the tissue
• Superficial, and a \_\_\_\_ perivascular (in LP you do not see the deep perivascualr infiltrate) > here, you see, auotomatically you're thinking some kind of a reaction (due to drug, contact, etc.)
	○ \_\_\_\_ taking is critical (cinnamon, peppermint, meds)
	○ Still treated with roids
• Have to understand cause - if you can link to medication (\_\_\_\_) > changing the medication
• If restoration > do not replace unless you have to > \_\_\_\_ first, if doesn't go away > may warrant reevaluation for that tooth
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perivascular
deep
history
temporally
treat
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  • L: ____ restoration

* R: chewing cinnamon gum > erosive lichenoid pattern involving ____ of tongue

A

gold

dorsum

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Desquamative Gingivitis
Erosive lichen planus
Lichenoid mucositis
Graft vs host disease

• And \_\_\_\_, can manifest with desquamtive gingivitis
	○ Gums are peeling red and raw
A

lupus

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Hemidesmosomes
• Physically attach ____ cells to basement membrane
• Cytokeratin molecules in cytoplasm are connected to ____
– Via Bullous pemphigoid ____ and ____ (BP230 and BP180) and ____
• Extracellular domain of integrin crosses plasma membrane to bind ____ in basement membrane

• Protein structures that link basal cells to BM
	○ Linked from within via \_\_\_\_
• Hemidesmosome composed of proteins that link cytokeratin within cell; cytokeratin binds to PB230, 180 and plectin and all binds to integrin a6b4 which crosses cell membrane into external environment (basement membrane, binding laminin 5)
	○ Any protein disruption > detachment
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basal
intergin alpha6beta4
230
180
plectin
laminin 5
cytokeratin
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Benign mucous membrane pemphigoid

  • ____, vesiculobullous disease
  • Similar to Type ____ hypersensitivity
  • ____ women
  • Usually limited to ____ membranes
  • Lesions heal with scarring
  • ____ consult is mandatory
    • Vesiculobullous - blisters - separation of epi from connective tissue > will rupture giving rise to ulceration
    • TII > ____ generated unknwon > binds antigen (any of proteins within hemidesmo) > destruction of hemidesmo and reuslting in separationf rom CT
    • Mucuous membranes, not just oral cavity (can be ocular, genital, etc.); very rarely you will get ____ lesions
    • ____ pemphigoid > another word for scar (heal with scarring, esp in eyes)
A
autoimmune
II
older
mucous
ophtlamology

antibody
skin
sicotritial

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Mucous membrane pemphigoid

• Over time you get scar tissue > to point that scars connect lower eyelid to the actual globe > \_\_\_\_ (scar tissue that connects lower eyelid to the lobe) > hard time moving eye > \_\_\_\_ > fixed globe (can't move eye at all)
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symblepharon

ankylobepharon

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Mucous membrane pemphigoid

  • ____ autoantibodies
  • Several possible antigens
    • Develop autoantibodies against antigen > unknown eitology > the trigger can be ____, laminin 5, ____ in pemphigoid
    • MMP pemphigoid, ____ disease > array of genes that result in same phenotype that result in separation of tissue
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IgG
BP230
BP180
heterogenous

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Mucous membrane pemphigoid

• Antibodies bind anitgen within \_\_\_\_ > destruction of hemi > lost and separated from CT > subethelial cleavage
A

hemidesmosome

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  • Epi is completely separated from underlying CT > ____ cleavage
    • ____ to establish diagnosis
A

subepi

biopsy

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Direct immunofluoresence
Antibodies have variable region (which recognizes antigen) and a constant region

• Important to establish diagnosis
• Blue > piece of \_\_\_\_ tissue on the slide
• The structures are antibodies (white, etc.)
• If patient has pemhp > tissues have ab's to the \_\_\_\_ (autoab's)
• Each class of ab, the \_\_\_\_ regions are the same (all IgG have the same region)
	○ Fab varies within class
• Can exploit the Fc reigons by producing ab synthetically tor \_\_\_\_ all human IgG Fc
	○ Tagging the synthetic ab with a fluorochrome > detect fluoro with immunofluoresence
A

biopsy
hemi
Fc
recognizing

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Membrane mucous pemphigoid

• \_\_\_ pattern of fluorescene, bc tha tnibody bind at the BM (the hemidesmosome)
• Finding directly evident from patient \_\_\_ > direct immunofluoresscence
• Steroids prevent \_\_\_ cells from forming, prveenting formaitno of plasma and prveent fomratnion of ab
	○ Similar to LP, but that's for lympho's
A

linear
tissue
B

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Desmosomes

• Protein structures that bind actual cells to one another (including \_\_\_ cells)
• Composed of \_\_\_, desmocollin, \_\_\_, desmoplakin
	○ (which are \_\_\_) to adjacent cells. 
	○ \_\_\_ and \_\_\_ connect cytokeratins in the cells 
• Cytokeratin > DP, PK > DG and DC cross cell membrane > outside of cell interdigitate with \_\_\_ to form a tight zipper
A
basal
desmoglein
plakoglobin
intracellular
PG
DP
adjacent cells
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Desmosomes

  1. ___ (bundles of tonofilaments) connect to…
  2. Intracellular thickenings composed of ___ and plakoglobin
  3. ____ and desmocollin penetrate intercellular space
  4. Attach to their counterparts from opposite cells
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tonofibrils
desmoplakin
desmoglein

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Pemphigus vulgaris
• No ____ predilection
• Fragile vesicles or bullae
– Positive ____ sign

• Skin, dysphonia, dysphagia

  • Similar to Type ____ hypersensitivity
  • ____ autoantibodies
  • ____ is antigenic• Still vesiculobullous > blisters are extremely fragile > rearley see blisters in this disease
    • Can eliciit blister formation with ____ trauma > postiive nikoslky sign
    ○ Cotton swab/back end of mirror > minor twisitng on skin/mucosa > causes blistering
    ○ Can do with pemphigoid but takes much more to do
    • Skin mucosa > affects any SSE linign (laryngeal, esophageal) > ____ (altered voice, deeper) and ____ (difficulty eating, traumatize esophagus)
    • Type II > IgG binding to an autoantigen > unlike PG > only ____ antigen > DG3
A
sex
nikolsky
II
IgG
desmoglein 3

minimal
dysphona
dysphagia

one

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  • Nikossky sign

* Stopped ____ bc disease was so uncomfortable

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brushing

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  • Diffuse oral disease of palate

* Ask questions about lesions on skin > chest/back ____ > placing on ____ separated skin

A

soreness

bra

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Desquamative gingivitis
• Erosive lichen planus
• Lichenoid mucositis
• Mucous membrane pemphigoid
• \_\_\_\_
• Graft versus host disease
A

pemphigus vulgaris

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Pemphigus vulgaris
• ____ cleavage
• Acantholysis
• ____ cells

• Antibodies bind DG3 > lost cell attachment
• \_\_\_\_ cells are physically separating from each other 
\_\_\_\_ cells 
sometimes we have individual cells floating around in the blister
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suprabasilar
tzanck
acantholysis
tzanck

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  • individual cells falling apart is called ____ cell

* ____ is Acantholysis

A

tzanck

separation

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  • Cellsa ttached to BM, everything above is separated

* R: ____ cells

A

Tzanck

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• Basal cells have ____, stilla ttached to BM, but they’re standing ____
Tombstone!

A

desmosomes

alone

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Direct IF - pemphigus vulg

• \_\_\_\_ pattern > black is actual cells, and the green around is the ab binding around the cells
	○ \_\_\_\_ for PV
A

chicken wire

pathoneumonic

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Indirect IF

• Unlike PG, can use indirect
• Use patients \_\_\_\_ (draw blood sample, spin it down) > if have PV will ab at \_\_\_\_ enough concentration in their serum
• Patients serum has autoab's in the serum, and incubate with a \_\_\_\_ anti-human IgG
	○ Apply it to another \_\_\_\_ (mouse, monkey, etc.) > mouse SSE all contain desmosomes with DG3 that is similar to human DG3
	If pt has antibodies, you will see same chicken wire pattern.
	antibody will bind to desmoglein 
• Why use indirect?
• We can tirtrate terament based on \_\_\_\_ of antibodies..we can see if pt is responding to therapy by taking \_\_\_\_ instead of biospy every time! 
• 100 ab in serum today > after month of therapy > down to 50 ab in serum > therapy is working
	○ Can take blood samples occasioanlly to gauge response to therapy
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serum
high
secondary
tissue
concentration
blood
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Pemphigus vs. Pemphigoid table

Pemphigus
Circ. ab: \_\_\_\_
Loc of antigen: \_\_\_\_
Loc of blister: \_\_\_\_
Anatomic surfaces: \_\_\_\_
Nikolsky sign: \_\_\_\_
Txt: \_\_\_\_
Prognosis: \_\_\_\_
Pemphigoid
Circ. ab: \_\_\_\_
Loc of antigen: \_\_\_\_
Loc of blister: \_\_\_\_
Anatomic surfaces: \_\_\_\_
Nikolsky sign: \_\_\_\_
Txt: \_\_\_\_
Prognosis: \_\_\_\_
• Pemphigus is a disease of \_\_\_\_ - periods of remission, etc; was once a life threatening disease
	○ \_\_\_\_
• much harder to elicit blister in  \_\_\_\_
• dont use indirect with diagnosis of pemphigoid - low \_\_\_\_ of auto antibodies 
• Pemphigoid > disease is limited and more easily \_\_\_\_
A
yes
desmosome
suprabasilar
mucosa and skin
\+++
systemic meds
fair-good
no
hemidesmosome
subepithelial
mainly mucosa
\+
topical/systemic meds
good-excellent
life
steroids
pemphigoid
concentration
treated
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  • pathognomonic for Pemphigus V (____ pattern)

* linear pattern shown here is not pathognomonic of ____ (____ also shows linear pattern of fluorescence)

A

chicken wire
mucus membrane pemphigoid
lupus

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Lupus erythematosus
• \_\_\_\_ group of diseases
• Three main types
– \_\_\_\_ lupus
– Chronic cutaneous lupus (\_\_\_\_ lupus)
• Type \_\_\_\_ hypersensitivity
• Three categories > heterogenous > 2 main:  systemic lupus, and discoid lupus
	○ Systemic - affects array of tissue/organ types (skin, kidney, heart, GI, brain)
	○ Discoid - more limited in phenotype, primariily \_\_\_\_ mucosa 
• TIII > aggregate of ab-antigen > many anitgens > this doesn't cause damage, but he recruitment of complement and \_\_\_\_ causes the damage (BV, skin, epi, glomeruli, etc.)
A

heterogenous
systemic
discoid
III

skin
PMNs

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SLE
• \_\_\_\_ rash
• Oral lesions may resemble \_\_\_\_
• Antinuclear antibodies
• Positive \_\_\_\_ antigen
• Anti-\_\_\_\_-stranded DNA antibodies
• Lupus band test
– + DIF of \_\_\_\_ and normal \_\_\_\_
• Very characteristically with butterfly type of face; not pathognomonic but characteristic to skin
	○ May feature \_\_\_\_
• Heterogenous - ab's that are autoreactive, to DNA to ribonucleoprotein > smith antigen, and to dsDNA
	○ The \_\_\_\_ of cells exposed to external enviornemtn > anitgenic in patients
• Diagnosied by only \_\_\_\_ fluoresncen > lupus band test > both lesional and non-lesional tissue 
	○ Occurs in both lesional and non-lesional
	○ Band is at BM
A
malar "butterfly"
lichen planus
smith
lesional
mucosa

balding
nuclei
direct

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SLE

• \_\_\_\_ gingivitis
• can be diagnosed with Direct  immunofluorescence ONLY \_\_\_\_
	○  it is called Lupus band test 
• both \_\_\_\_ and not \_\_\_\_ tissue is biopsied
• both lesional and non lesional will be \_\_\_\_ toward immunofluro you have a positive lupus band test- band at the \_\_\_\_ area 

• \_\_\_\_ pattern of fluorescence at the BM area
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desquam.
direct
lesional
lesional
reactive
BM

linear

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Discoid lupus
• Mainly affects \_\_\_\_-exposed skin
• Heals with scarring
• \_\_\_\_ oral lichenoid lesions
• Positive \_\_\_\_ in minority of cases
• Positive Lupus band test only of \_\_\_\_ tissue
• More likely effects \_\_\_\_ than males, but if it is a male it's much \_\_\_\_
• Limited to skin mucosa > heal with scarring > manifest in areas where you're exposed to sun > mimic \_\_\_\_ in the oral cavity
	○ Biospy is warranted so you know what you're dealing with
	○ Lupus treated with \_\_\_\_ rather than LP > treated with a diff class of medications
A

sun
erosive
ANAs
lesional

females
worse
LP
steroids

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Discoid Lupus

* R: desquamative gingivits
* add this disease (DLE)to the list too!
* Both SLE and Discoid lupus (DLE) can cause desquamative gingivitis 
* DLE can mimic \_\_\_\_
A

lichen planus

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Discoid lupus

* L: looks like LP under microscope, but in direct fluoresnce you see \_\_\_\_ band that you don't see in LP; lupus is autoimmune and not a DTH disease, so you have the presence of \_\_\_\_
* DLE only shows in the \_\_\_\_ tissue, not non-lesional (SLE does both)
A

linear
autoab’s
lesional

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Desquamative Gingivitis (FULL)
• \_\_\_\_
• Lichenoid mucositis
• \_\_\_\_
• Pemphigus vulgaris
• Graft versus host disease
• \_\_\_\_
• Discoid lupus erythematosus
A

erosive lichen planus
mucous membrane pemphigoid
systemic lupus erythematosus