Oral Neoplasia Flashcards
What do NOT generally spread deep into the tissues or metastasize to lymph nodes or lungs?
Non-clinically aggressive tumors
No non-clinically aggressive tumors respond to surgical removal?
Yes, but they may return to the same or an adjacent location
What occurs in young dogs, less than 2 years of age?
Canine Oral viral oral papillomatosis
Where do Canine oral viral oral papillomatosis typically occyr?
Oral mucous membrane
Lips
How is canine oral viral oral papillomatosis caused?
By a virus and will go away with time
Is surgery necessary for Canine oral viral oral papillomatosis?
Occasionally if they interfere with chewing and swallowing
What are common and usually result from periodontal disease or other irritation?
Granulomas
What respond well to local excision and removal of the originating cause?
Granulomas
Oral trauma from cheek chewing may result in what?
Granulomas
How do granulomas from cheek chewing resolve?
The offending teeth are extracted
What are cheek chewing granulomas also known as?
Oral pyogenic granulomas
What are cheek chewing granulomas often misdiagnosed as?
Squamous cell carcinomas
What are rare, distinct benign soft tissue tumors that have many clinicopathologic features of a spindle cell lipoma and solitary fibrous tumor with myxoid change?
Oral Fibromyxolipoma
What do oral fibromyxolipoma respond to?
Excision
The proliferation of gingival cells is also known as?
Gingival Hyperplasia
What breeds is Gingival Hyperplasia common in?
Collie
Boxer
Cocker spaniel
What may result from gingival hyperplasia?
Pocket formation
Periodontal disease
What is characterized by the presence of a tumor in the tissues of the gingiva that contains primarily fibrous tissue?
Peripheral Odontogenic Fibroma (OM/POF)
What is peripheral odontogenic fibroma also known as?
Fibromatous epulis
What does a peripheral odontogenic fibroma generally respond to?
Excision
It may return if the excision is incomplete
What resembles a peripheral odontogenic fibroma but contains a large amount of bone material so removal is sometimes difficult?
Ossifying epulis
What is the mass of cells that have enamel, dentin, cementum, and small tooth-like structures?
Odontomas
What are considered compound odontomas?
Masses with characteristics resembling normal teeth
What kind of odontomas has a more disorganized arrangement?
Complex odontomas
What is a disease of King Charles Spaniels?
Ulcerative eosinophilic stomatitis
What tends to be focal raised areas on the palate but do not have granuloma formation histologically?
ulcerative eosinophilic stomatitis
What is the cause of ulcerative eosinophilic stomatitis?
Unknown
What are benign encapsulated tumors of fat and connective tissue and excision is usually curative>
Sublingual Fibrolipomas
