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
