Connective Tissue Lesions

Question 1

Most common benign tumor of oral cavity

Answer 1

Fibroma

Question 2

Reactive fibrous hyperplasia due to local irritating factor

Answer 2

Fibroma

Question 3

Painless, smooth, firm, pink nodules 1.5 cm or less, mostly sessile, buccal mucosa near occlusal plane

Answer 3

Fibroma

Question 4

Denture induced fibrous hyperplasia related to ill fitting denture

Answer 4

Epulis Fissuratum

Question 5

Single or multiple fold of hyperplastic tissue in alveolar vestibule surrounding overextended denture flange

Answer 5

Denture Epulis

Question 6

Common reactive hyperplastic mass found exclusively on gingiva

Answer 6

Peripheral fibroma

Question 7

Reactive gingival growth contains calcified islands within fibrous tissue, bone, cementum like material or dystrophic calcification

Answer 7

Peripheral ossifying fibroma

Question 8

Odontogenic epithelium within the connective tissue

Answer 8

Peripheral Odontogenic Fibroma

Question 9

Increase in bulk of gingiva, interdental papilla, rolled, blunted, soft and spongy to firm and dense, abundance of collagen and fibroblasts

Answer 9

Generalized Gingival Hyperplasia

Question 10

Benign vascular smooth muscle tumor

Answer 10

Leiomyoma

Question 11

Malignant neoplasm of smooth muscle mostly in uterine wall and GI tract

Answer 11

Leiomyosarcoma

Question 12

Enlarged ulcerated mass, painful

Answer 12

Leiomyosarcoma

Question 13

Benign skeletal muscle tumor

Answer 13

Rhabdomyoma

Question 14

Uncommon benign soft tissue lesion hight occurance in oral cavity

Answer 14

Granular cell tumor/ myoblastoma

Question 15

Schwann cells, dorsal surface of tongue, pink to yellow sessile nodules

Answer 15

Granular cell tumor

Question 16

Pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia

Answer 16

Granular cell myoblastoma

Question 17

Uncommon soft tissue tumor exclusively on alveolar ridge of newborns, mostly females, mostly max ridge

Answer 17

Congenital epulis of the newborn

Question 18

Autoimmune, unknown cause, dense collagen 1 and 3 deposited in great amounts

Answer 18

Systemic sclerosis

Question 19

Sclerosis only on skin and not the internal organs

Answer 19

Systemic sclerosis

Question 20

Sclerosis on skin and multiple internal organs

Answer 20

Diffuse scleroderma

Question 21

Raynaud’s phenomena- vasoconstriction triggered by emotional distress or exposure to cold

Answer 21

Systemic sclerosis

Question 22

Mask like face, claw like fingers, mouse face

Answer 22

Systemic sclerosis

Question 23

Microstomia, purse string appearance, diffuse widening of PDL, mand bone resorption

Answer 23

Systemic sclerosis

Question 24

Benign tumor of fat

Answer 24

Lipoma

Question 25

Reactive proliferation after trauma to peripheral nerve damage, mental foramen area, tongue, lower lip, painful on digital pressure

Answer 25

Traumatic Neuroma

Question 26

Benign neoplasm, proliferation of schwann cells of neurilemma

Answer 26

Schwannoma

Question 27

Antoni A- verocay bodies, Antoni B

Answer 27

Schwannoma

Question 28

Most common benign peripheral nerve neoplasm

Answer 28

Neurofibroma

Question 29

Schwann cells & perineural fibroblasts

Answer 29

Neurofibroma

Question 30

Most common type if neurofibromatosis

Answer 30

Von Recklinghausen’s disease of skin/ neurofibromatosis type I

Question 31

Multiple neurofibromas of oral cavity & skin, cafe-au-lait spots, iris freckling, lisch nodules, axillary freckling, crowe sign

Answer 31

Von Recklinghausen’s disease of skin

Question 32

Mucocutaneous neuromas, oral mucosal neuromas, complication medullary carcinoma of thyroid

Answer 32

Multiple endocrine neoplasia(MEN)

Question 33

Benign hamartomas of lymphatic vessels, head & neck, anterior 2/3 of tongue, macroglossia, diffuse soft fluctuant pebbly surface

Answer 33

Lymphangioma

Question 34

Cystic hygroma, neck, life threatening

Answer 34

Macrocystic lymphangioma

Question 35

Benign reactive proliferation of superficial fascia

Answer 35

Nodular fasciitis