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Exam 1 Review (part 2) Flashcards

1
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What type of disease is hairy tongue?

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Non-developmental

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What are the characteristics of Hairy Tongue?

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  • Hypertrophy of filiform papillae
  • Unknown etiology, predisposing factors:
    • Drus (antibiotics, H2O2), smoking, radiation therapy
  • Extrinsic staining
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What is the treatment for Hairy Tongue?

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  • Physical debridement
  • Chlorhexidine
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Describe the characteristics of Varix (varicose vein), Varices.

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  • Age-related, non-developmental
  • Superficial dilated veins
  • Most common in calf, anus,
    • Orally - ventral tongue
  • Color blanches with pressure (diascopy)
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5
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Why would you treat varix or varices?

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Only for esthetics

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6
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What is a lingual thyroid nodule?

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Thyroid gland develops from the thryoglossal tract which is an endodermal invagination starting in the base of the tongue (foramen cecum)

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What are the characteristics of a lingual thyroid nodule?

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  • Produces mass - posterior, mid-dorsal tongue
  • Ma not have thyroid gland in neck
  • Radioactive I given to image gland
  • May treat surgically or with thyroid replacement therapy (shrinks the mass)
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What can be from lymphoid tissue? (lymphocytes, immune system)

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  • Lingual Tonsils
  • Lymphoepithelial cysts
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Where can lymphoid tonsils be found on the tongue?

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  • More in posterior-lateral
  • Posterior dorsal surface
  • (bilateral symmetry)
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10
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Describe normal and hyperplastic lingual tonsils.

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  • Normal - asymptomatic
  • Hyperplastic - often swollen and symptomatic, TREAT
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What is lymphoid tissue that reacts and stimulates salivary ducts to proliferate producing a cyst or crypts around lymphoid tissue occlude?

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Lymphoepithelial Cyst

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12
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Where are lymphoepithelial cysts located and how are they treated?

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  • Location - Ventral tongue, FOM, soft palate,
    • Asymptomatic, small yellowish nodules
  • Treatment - Excision
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What is often seen as an asymptomatic radioluceny, often corticated, below inferior alveolar canal and from angle to midbody of the ramus?

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Stafne’s Bone Cavity

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14
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What is Stafne’s Bone Cavity?

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A developmental lingual mandibular salivary gland depression

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What is the most common of all the developmental cysts?

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Incisive canal cyst

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16
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What is the incisive canal cyst from?

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  • Cystic degeneration of nasopalatine ducts within the incisive canal
  • Any age, often asymptomatic
17
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What appears as a >6mm radiolucency anterior maxillary region, between roots of central incisors with vital teeth?

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Incisive canal cyst - nasopalatine duct cyst

18
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What is the variant of incisive canal cyst?

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Cyst of incisive papilla (outside bone)

19
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What is a developmental cyst resulting from entrapped epithelium when premaxilla fuses with maxilla?

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Globulomaxillary Cyst

20
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Describe the Globulomaxillary Cyst.

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  • Asymptomatic radiolucency between Max cuspid and laterial incisor
  • Most common lucency between lateral and cuspids - lateral radicular cyst
21
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What is a cyst from entrapped epithelium during palatal closure?

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Medial Palatal Cyst

22
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How can you identify and treat a Median Palatal Cyst?

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  • Radiolucency - midpalate with or without swelling
  • Surgical removal
23
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What cyst is from embryologic nasolacrimal duct producing upper lip cyst to right or left of midline?

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Nasoalveolar Cyst (nasolabial cyst)

24
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Describe the nasoalveolar cyst and what’s the treatment?

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  • Soft, fluctuant, elevates ala
  • 3/4 females, 10% bilateral
  • Surgical removal
25
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What are cysts from thyroglossal tract and that are always in the midline?

A

Thryoglossal duct (tract) cyst

26
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What is the cyst from entrapped salivary gland ducts in paraparotid lymph nodes?

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Cervical lymphoepithelial Cysts

27
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What cyst is from branchial arch and pouch development?

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Branchial Cleft Cysts

28
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What is the most common site for cervical lymphoepithelial cysts?

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Md angle anterior to sternocleidomastoid muscle

Treated by surgical removal

29
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Which cyst is often in the midline and from entrapped epithelium during surface closure?

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Epidermoid and Dermoid Cysts

30
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What’s the difference between an epidermoid and dermoid cyst?

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  • Epidermoid
    • lined by stratified squamous epithelium (epidermis)
  • Dermoid
    • lined by stratefied squamous epithelium but with dermal appendages (sebaceous glands, sweat glands, hair follicles
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Oral Pathology (6 decks)

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