OPF Appendix 3 Flashcards
What are the most common soft tissue masses of the lower lip?
- Mucocele
- Irritation fibroma
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Mesenchymal tumors
What are the most common soft tissue masses of the upper lip?
- Irritation fibroma
- Salivary gland tumor
- Salivary duct cyst or sialolith
What are the most common soft tissue masses of the gingiva/alveolar mucosa?
- Parulis/fistula/sinus tract
- Epulis fissuratum
- Pyogenic granuloma (3Ps)
- Fibroma
- Squamous cell carcinoma
What are the 3 P’s?
- Pyogenic Granuloma
- Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma
- Peripheral Giant Cell Granuloma
What pathology has the following features?
- Soft tissue counterpart of LPC
- Facial gingiva
- Bluish
- 75-80% Mand. Canine/pre-molar
Gingival cyst
What are the most common soft tissue masses of the buccal mucosa?
- Irritation fibroma
- Lipoma
- Mucocele
What are the most common soft tissue masses of the Tongue??
- Irritation fibroma
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Mucocele
- Granular cell tumor
- Mesenchymal tumors
- Pyogenic granuloma
What are the most common soft tissue masses of the floor of the mouth?
- Ranula/mucocele
- Sialolith
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Cyst
What are the most common lateral neck lesions?
- Reactive lympadenopathy
- Epidermoid and other cysts
- Lipoma
- Metastatic Cancer or lymphoma
What are the most common midline neck lesions?
Thyroid gland enlargement
Thyroglossal tract cyst
Dermoid Cyst
What are the most common soft tissue masses of the hard or soft palate?
- Palatal abscess
- Leaf like denture fibroma
- Salivary gland tumors
- Nasopalatine duct cyst
- IPH
What are the most common soft tissue masses that present as multiple lesions?
- Kaposi’s Sarcoma
2. Neurofibromatosis
What are the most common generalized gingival enlargements?
- Hyperplastic gingivitis
2. Drug-related gingival hyperplasia
