Chapter 16 Slide Set 1 Flashcards
What are the major predisposing conditions to mucormycosis?
DM
Iron overload
Corticosteroid use
Neutropenia
What benign gingival mass w/rapid onset is seen in pregnant women, children and young adults?
Pyogenic granuloma
Where are favored locations for squamous cell cancer?
Typically are preceded by what?
Ventral tongue FOM Lower lip Soft palate Gingiva
Precancerous lesion
Multiple OKCs should be evaluated for what nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome?
Associated with what?
Gorlin syndrome
Mutation in PTCH on ch. 9
Measles (rubeola) is what kind of virus?
ssRNA of paramyxovirus family
What is a torus palatinus?
Bony malformation on had palate
What neoplasm is associated with PLAG1 gene mutation?
Pleomorphic adenoma (benign)
What test is used to diagnose HSV?
Positive when?
Tzanck test
If acantholytic keratinocytes or multinucleated giant acantholytic keratinocytes are detected
Most squamous cell cancers are due to what?
Alcohol and tobacco
HPV (16)
Lymphoid organs in Measles have what characterisitic finding?
Warthin-Finkeldey cells
What kind of tumors do better in prognosis?
HPV (+) compared to HPV (-)
What is an epithelial-lined cyst that arise when the duct of the sublingual gland has been damaged?
Ranula
What are the 3 main sites of invasion by mucormycosis?
Sinuses
Lungs
Gi tract
What causes Hutchinson teeth?
Syphilis
What autosomal dominant disorder causes multiple congenital aneurysmal telangiectasias beneath the mucosal surfaces of the oral cavity and lips?
Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome
Where does HPV metastasize to (LN)?
Deep Cervical LN
Is leukoplakia or erythroplakia more common?
What is more likely to become cancer?
Leukoplakia
Erythroplakia
What is a nonseptate hyphae of width 6-50 um with right angle branching?
Mucormycosis (Zygomycosis)
Can leukoplakias be scraped off?
Considered what?
No
Precancerous
When do benign tumors of the salivary gland most often appear?
Malignant?
50-70
Later than that
What causes a dirty white, fibrinosuppurative, tough, inflammatory membrane over the tonisils and retropharynx (sometimes called a pseudo-membrane)?
Diphtheria