Oral Path- ABGD Flashcards
What is “ cobweb trabeculation” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
odontogenic myxoma
What is “ beaten copper/beaten metal” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
Crouzon and Apert Syndromes
Hypophosphatasia
What is “ Cotton ball opacification” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
chondrosarcom
What is “cotton wool opacification” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
pagets disease
What is “floating in air” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
langerhans cell histiocytosis
What is “garrington sign (symmetric PDL widening)” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma
What is “ground/etched glass, orange peal” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
fibrous dysplasia
What is “hair on end pattern” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
sickle cell anemia
thalassemia
What is “honeycomb pattern” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
hemangioma/av malformation
What is “moth eaten radiolucency” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
osteomyelitis
ewing sarcoma
What is “onion skin opacification” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis
ewing sarcoma
What is “Punched out lesion” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
myeloma (adults)
LCH (children)
(Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis)
What is “snow driven, snow plow calcification” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
CEOT Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor (Pindborg tumor)
What is “snow flake calcification” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
AOT
What is soap ubble trabeculation” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
ameloblastoma
what is “Stepladder trabeculation” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
sickle cell disease
what is “sunburst/sunray opacification” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
osteo sarcoma
chondrosarcoma
hemangioma
What is “Tower skull “ imaging descriptors suggestive of?
apert syndrome
What is “tramline calcification (skull film) “ imaging descriptors suggestive of?
sturge weber angiomatosis
What is “wormian (sutural) bones (skull film)” imaging descriptors suggestive of?
cleidocrandial dysplasia
osteogenesis imperfecta
When to use an incisional biopsy? What solution do you put it in
for high risk lesions and for ulcerative/fermatologic disease
10% formalin
Michel’s solution (immunofluorescence)
Fresh (frozen, oncology protocol)
When do you use an excisional biopsy?
for small nodule on the buccal mucosa or gingiva, a small mucocele.
What might be your diff dx for a gingival nodule? What is the recurrent rate?
Pyogenic granuloma
Peripheral ossifying fibroma
peripheral odotogenic fibroma
peripheral giant cell granuloma
fibroma
*3-16% recurrence
What are common causes for generalized gingival overgrowth?
local factors
immunologic/immunodeficient/immunosenescent
hormonal (pregnancy)
medications (dilantin, CCBs, cyclosporine)
genetic/developmental/syndromic
neoplastic (leukemia/lymphona or metastatic)
What re diff dx for papillary/verrucous nodules
squamous papilloma (HPY, low risk)
condyloma acuminatum (HPV, sex transmit)
fibroma
verruciform xanthoma
Verrucous hyperplasia, proliferative verrucous leukoplakia, carcinoma may also be considered
What are the diff dx for soft tissue/multiple nodules?
Granular cell tumors
neuromas and neurofibromas (like in MEN and neurofibromatosis)
If youre concerned about multiple nodules what else should you look for?
cafe au lait spots, endocrinopathies
What is the differential for a single lower lip dark macule that is unchanged?
melanotic macule
melanocytic nevus
ephelis (freckle)
What are potential sources of pigmentation of the oral tissues?
physiologic
melanin deposition
melanocyte activity
medications
foreign bodies
vascular
syndromic (addisons, Sturge-Weber, ORWD, Peutz-Jeghers)
What are the clinical findingsthat may make you concerned for melanoma?
A: asymmetry
B: border irregularity
C: color variation
D: diameter >5-6mm
E: Evolution (change over time
What are the three most common skin cancers?
- basal cell carcinoma
- squamous cell carcinoma
- melanoma
How would you prescribe valacyclovir for a viral stomatitis?
2g STAT, then 2g 12 hrs later (+/- Q12 hr for 2-5 days)
What is an oral manifestation of crohn’s disease called?
pyostomatitis vegetans
What infectious diseases are associated with oral ulcers and granulomatous ulcers?
herpes (HSV1, HSV2, VZV, EBV, CMV, HHV6, HHV7, HHV8/KSV)
enteroviruses- usually towards the oropharynx
actinomycetes
treponema- syphilis
histoplasmosis, coccidiodiomycosis, blastomycosis (fungi)
What treatment options do you have for aphthous stomatitis?
- none
- rx: fluocinonide (lidex) 0.05% gel, 30 gram tube, apply 2-3x per day, with 1 refill
- rx: clobetasol (temovate) 0.05% gel, 30 gm tube, apply 2-4x/day
whats the fancy name for frictional irritation like chronic cheek biting?
morsicatio
What are some considerations for clinical licehnoid mucositis?what might cause it?
licehn planus
rxn to materials- amalgam, mouth rinse, toothpaste etc
dietary: cinnamon rxn
lichenoid rxn ot meds
oral GVHD
systemic lupus erythematosus or other autoimmunue disease
With lichen planus, what are you looking for?
striations, examine skinfor other dematologic dz
what do you look for with pemphigus?
spontaneous ulceration, hx of reveal systemic dz or neoplasm
What to look for with pemphigoid?
bullae (blisters), examine skin, eyes, nasal mucosa
What to look for with erythema multiform
desquamation, crusting lesions, burn like lesions, target lesions
For lichenoid mucositis, how might you treat?
- Lidex
- temovate
- if non responsedoxy 20mg 1 tab Q6 hr, 60 tabs
What are the high risk strains for HPV with regards to oral cancer?
high risk HPV (16, 18, 31, 33, 51, 52)
What is gardisil and when should it be used?
HPV vaccine:
routine vaccination 11-12 yo females (started at age 9)
13-26 yo high risk groups
to 26 yo
Where are you most likely to find HPV related cancer?
base of tongue
tonsils, oropharynx, nasopharynx
cysts in the sinus on a pano? what might that be?
Antral pseudocyst
refer if symptomatic or concerns regarding tx.