Clinical findings Flashcards

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Lichen planus (histology)

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Sawtooth-like rete pegs

Liquefactive degeneration of the basal cell layer

Subepithelial band of lymphocytes and histiocytes

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Leukoplakia

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White patch or plaque that can’t be characterized clinically or pathologically as any other disease

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Types of leukoplakia

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Homogenous (smooth or corrugated, thin or thick)

Non-homogenous (more likely to have malignant transformation, can be smooth, speckled, granular or nodular)

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Erythroplakia

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Red lesion that can’t be characterized clinically or pathologically as any other disease

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Squamous papilloma

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Single warty pedunculated growth or sessile soft tissue growth at any intra-oral site

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Squamous papilloma (histology)

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Finger-like processes of proliferating SS epithelium supported by thin cores of vascular connective tissue showing hyperkeratosis

HPV 2, 6, 11, 57

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Verruca vulgaris

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Occasionally multiple warty pedunculated growths or sessile soft tissue growths at any intra-oral site

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Verruca vulgaris (histology)

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Finger-like processes of proliferating SS epithelium supported by thin cores of vascular connective tissue showing hyperkeratosis

HPV 2, 4

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Frictional keratosis

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White lesion with rough and frayed surface, clearly related with a source of mechanical irritation

Poorly demarcated with diffuse margins

Cheek mucosa, alveolar ridge

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Frictional keratosis (histology)

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Hyperkeratosis
Acanthosis
Keratinocyte oedema
Lack of dysplasia
No/mild inflammatory infiltrate

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Linea alba

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Uniform adherent horizontal white line along occlusal plane on one or both buccal mucosae

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Morsicatio buccarum

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Poorly demarcated white plaque with a shredded appearance of mucosa, with tags of epithelium that peels off

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Morsicatio buccarum (histology)

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Marked hyperparakeratosis
Bacteria colonies on surface
Acanthosis
Keratinocyte oedema
No inflammation

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Benign alveolar ridge keratosis

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Poorly demarcated white plaque of alveolar ridge, retromolar pad

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Contact desquamation

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Painless, stringy white fragments that easily peel off to reveal normal mucosa

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Hairy tongue

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Hyperparakeratotic and hyperplastic filiform papillae, with many bacterial colonies and probably decreased keratin desquamation

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Nicotinic stomatitis

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Palatal mucosa diffusely white with elevated red papules

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Nicotinic stomatitis (histology)

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Hyperkeratosis
Acanthosis
Squamous metaplasia of salivary gland ducts
No dysplasia

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Smokeless Tobacco-Induced Keratosis

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White, granular, wrinkled surface, poorly demarcated

Buccal sulcus, vestibule areas

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Leukoedema

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Soft, diffuse, white, milky appearance of esp buccal mucosa, becoming less clinically evident on stretching

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Leukoedema (histology)

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Acanthosis
Striking keratinocyte oedema
Minimal or no keratosis

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Oral hairy leukoplakia

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Asymptomatic, nonremovable white vertical corrugated hyperkeratotic lesion typically on lateral border of tongue

Marker of poor prognosis in HIV+ px

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Geographic tongue / benign migratory glossitis

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Migratory pattern of well-demarcated erythematous, atrophic areas devoid of filiform papillae surrounded by slightly elevated white linear or ring like areas, mainly on dorsum of tongue

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Lichen planus

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Chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology with
characteristic relapses and remissions, displaying white reticular lesions (lacelike network of slightly raised gray-white lines), accompanied or not by atrophic, erosive and ulcerative
and/or plaque type areas.
Lesions are frequently bilaterally symmetrical.
Desquamative gingivitis may be a feature

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SLE

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Lichenoid lesions: discoid, with a central atrophic area and radiating white striae

Erythematous lesions on palate

Slit-like gingival ulcerations

Butterfly rash around mouth

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Discoid lupus erythematosus

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Discoid lesions on buccal mucosa and palate

Serpiginous keratotic lesion on lip

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Retrocuspid papillae

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Usually bilateral, asymptomatic, small, moderately firm, smooth, sessile, round, pink-to-red papules on lingual gingiva of mand canines

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Fordyce granules

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Sebaceous glands that present as multiple small yellow papules

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Bohn nodules

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Cyst on junction of hard and soft palate or on vestibular region

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Epstein pearls

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Cyst on midpalatal raphae

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Dental lamina cysts

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Cyst on the crest of the alveolar ridge

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Eruption cyst

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Soft, fluctuant, sessile, dome-shaped, translucent swelling overlying an erupting tooth

Can appear blue or blue-black when filled with blood

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Congenital epulis

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Single, firm, smooth, sessile or pedunculated round mass esp found on anterior max alveolar ridge

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Melanotic neuroectodermal tumour of infancy

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Painless, non-ulcerative, firm, smooth sessile swelling on anterior maxillary alveolar ridge

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Freckles/ephelis

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1-3mm uniformly, tan/brown macules with regularly defined borders on sun-exposed skin, darkening with sunlight

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Cafe Au Lait pigmentation

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Well-circumscribed, uniformly light to dark brown macules that are typically 2-3 shades darker than normal skin colour, occurring anywhere on the body

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Oral melanocytic macule

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Asymptomatic, solitary, well circumscribed, uniformly brown, round or oval lesion, does not darken with sun

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Primary orofacial HSV

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Vesicles that become ulcers and coalesce on attached and unattached oral mucosa

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Recurrent HSV infection

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Lips or vermillion border
Vesicles on attached gingiva, rupturing and crusting

Burning, tiching, tingling, erythema in prodromal phase

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Primary VZV infection

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Pruritic rash involving face and trunk and later extremities

Vesicles on vermillion border of lips, palate, buccal mucosa, gingiva etc that rupture to form ulcers

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Recurrent VZV infection

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Clusters of fluid filled vesicles on erythematous base, ulcerating, coalescing and crusting

Keratinized and non-keratinized oral mucosa, extending to midline

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EBV

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NUG
Mucosal petechiae

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HFMD

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Multiple small ulcers on labial and buccal mucosa, vestibules, tongue and palate

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Herpangina

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Multiple small ulcers in posterior oral cavity/oropharynx

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Measles

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Koplik’s spots: bluish white macules within erythematous mucosa

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Congenital rubella syndrome

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Deafness, heart disease, cataracts triad

Small, discrete dark-red papules on soft and/or hard palate

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Pleomorphic adenoma

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Asymptomatic, slow growing, often firm nodular swelling, most commonly on palate

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Pleomorphic adenoma (histology)

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Well defined capsule, can have satellite nodules

Ductal, squamous. myxoid, chrondroid, osseous and spindle cell features

Myxomatous stroma; hyalinized stroma

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Papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum (warthin tumour)

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Slow growing, painless mass of parotid gland, tends to occur bilaterally but at different times

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Papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum (warthin tumour) histology

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Ductal epithelium and lymphoid stroma

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Mucocele

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Sessile, often single, circumscribed soft tissue nodule

Maybe compressible, usually asymptomatic and may fluctuate in size

Variable colour - blue, white or pink

Often lower lip or any other site with minor salivary glands, may have history of known trauma

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Ranula

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Frog belly

Floor of mouth at submand or sublingual ducts

Circumscribed, fluctuant, usually asymptomatic, persistent, possible known trauma

Usually lateral to midline, colour varies with depth

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SCC

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Exo/endophytic, leuko/erythroplakia or mixed, ulcerated

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Pemphigus vulgaris

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Irregular ulcerations on oral mucosa
Positive Nikolsky sign
Bloody but rarely see blisters

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Mucous membrane pemphigoid

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Oral lesions
Involvement of other mucosal sites like eye, skin, pharynx, nasal mucosa
Intact bullae/vesicles often noted

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Erythema multiforme

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Target lesions, haemorrhagic crusting of lips

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SJS

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Blisters/lesions on trunk or face <10% total body surface

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Toxic epidermal necrotic syndrome

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Blisters/lesions on trunk or face >30% total body surface

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Crohn’s disease

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Diffuse/nodular swelling of oral and perioral tissues, cobblestone appearance

Orofacial granulomatosis

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Ulcerative colitis

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Aphthous like ulcers
Pyostomatitis vegetans

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Epidermolysis bullosa

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Dental abnormalities like anodontia, enamel hypoplasia

Oral ulcerations

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Fibrous epulis

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Pedunculated or sessile firm swelling on gingiva, may be ulcerated and covered by yellow fibrinous exudate

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Fibrous epulis (histology)

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Cellular fibroblastic granulation tissue and interlacing collagen bundles with variable inflammatory cell infiltration, plasma cells and calcifications

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Pyogenic granuloma

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Soft, haemorrhagic deep reddish-purplish swellings, often ulcerated

Gingiva, tongue, buccal and labial mucosa

As a result of trauma

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Pyogenic granuloma (histology)

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Vascular proliferation, solid sheets of endothelial cells or numerous small vessels and large, thin-walled vascular spaces supported by a delicate and oedematous cellular fibrous stroma infiltrated by mixed inflammatory cells

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Fibroma

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Well-defined smooth sessile or pedunculated swelling of soft to firm consistency

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Giant cell fibroma

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Pedunculated tumour with nodular or papillary surface

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Lipoma

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Well-defined pedunculated/sessile yellowish soft to doughy lump on cheek and tongue

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Haemangioma

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Dark reddish purplish smooth, flat or raised lesion of soft consistency and blanches on pressure

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Haemangioma (histology)

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Vascular spaces lined by endothelium and containing RBCs
Thrombosis and calcification not uncommon

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Fibrosarcoma (histology)

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Herring bone pattern composing of anaplastic spindle-shaped nuclei with eosinophilic cytoplasm in delicate collagenous stroma

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Burkitt’s lymphoma (histology)

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Sheets of undifferentiated small, round lymphocytic cells from B lymphocytes, with large pale macrophages scattered across lymphoid cells

Starry sky pattern

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Kaposi sarcoma (histology)

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Prominent vascular channels lined by atypical endothelial cells and areas of extravasated RBCs with haemosiderin

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Oral melanocytic naevi

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Painless, raised or flat <1cm, palate, gingivae

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Melanoma

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Irregular pigmented lesion

Irregular borders, rapid increase in size, satellite lesions

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Racial pigmentation

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Diffuse intra-oral melanosis in dark skinned races, esp in buccal gingivae

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Smokers melanosis

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Diffuse macular melanosis of esp labial gingivae

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Addison’s disease

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Diffuse, patchy intraoral pigmentation and bronzing of skin

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Peutz-Jegher’s Syndrome

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Multiple focal melanotic brown macules concentrated periorally, also cheek mucosa, fingers, hands

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Amalgam tattoo

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Bluish-black macular lesion

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Varix

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Solitary, soft, compressible, dark blue to violaceous papule on sun-exposed surfaces of vermillion border of lip, face, and tongue, buccal mucosa etc

Blanches on pressure

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Kaposi’s sarcoma

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Red/purple patches that become nodular/ulcerative/multifocal