Oral Pathology & Associated Syndromes Flashcards
What are common infant ST lesions?
- Natal oral cysts
- Sucking pads and calluses
- Pseudomembranous candidiasis
What are natal oral cysts?
White papules that slough off
Name palatal cysts of newborn
- Epstein pearls
- Bohn nodules
Single or multiple papules that rupture and heal
Epstein pearls
- Occurs on palatal midline
- Epithelial inclusion cyst
Bohn nodules
- Occurs on junction of hard and soft palate
- Remnants of minor salivary glands
Incidence of palatal cysts of newborn?
- 55-85%
GIngival (alveolar) cyst of newborn
- Dental lamina cyst – occurs on alveolar mucosa; remnants of dental lamina
- Occurs in 50%
- Single or multiple papules that rupture and heal
What do natal oral cysts mimic?
- Superficial abscess
- Thrush
- Erupting tooth
- Eruption cyst
- Lymphoepithelial cyst (palate)
Sucking pads and calluses
- Anatomical variant from sucking trauma
- Most prominent in black infants
- Site: Labial and vermillion border
- Swollen, translucent to opaque white to pigmented scaly patches; may peel and recur; non-tender
Concurrent conditions with sucking pads and calluses
- Leukoedema
- Labial vesicles
- Bullae
- Erythema of nasiolabial folds and lips
Treatment for sucking pads and calluses
- Resolves
- Feeding position
- Lip emollient, such as lanolin
What do sucking pads and calluses mimic?
- Chapped lips
- Breastfeeding keratosis
Pseudomembranous candidiasis
- Common oral infection in neonates
- Cause: Candida albicans usually
- Usually does not cause infection unless host is immunocompromised
- Contributing factors:
- Maternal vaginal (untreated vulvovaginitis) or breast infection
- Prematurity
- Immunosuppression
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Antibiotics
- Increases susceptibility with long-term abx, corticosteroids, drugs that cause xerostomia debilitating disease, oral appliances
- Site: Widespread oral involvement
- White non-adherent papules and plaques with a curdled milk appearance
- Multifocal white papules and plaques that wipe off and red patches that may burn
Concurrent conditions with pseudomembranous candidiasis
- Diaper rash
- Perioral rash
Pseudomembranous candidiasis: Treatment
- Nystatin
- Fluconazole
- Clotrimazole
- Itraconazole
What does pseudomembranous candidiasis mimic?
- Coated tongue
- Materia alba
- Oral cysts of newborn
- Mucosal sloughing
- Breastfeeding keratosis
- Plaque, mucosal sloughing
- Koplik spots of measles
- Mucous patches of syphilis
Uncommon infant ST lesions
- Riga-Fede disease
- Tongue trauma in infants
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Vascular lesions
- Vascular tumors
- Vascular malformations
- Vascular malformation
- Hemangioma
- Lymphatic malformation
- Neonatal alveolar lymphangioma
Riga-Fede Disease
- Cause: Chronic trauma from primary incisors
- Represents a traumatic granuloma
- Ulcerated lesion or mass on anterior ventral tongue
Riga-Fede Disease: Treatment
- Identify cause
- Modify feeding position and bottle used
- Smooth incisal edges
- Apply CHX rinse to ulcer for secondary infection
- Evaluate for partial ankyloglossia
What does Riga-Fede Disease mimic?
- Neuropathologic chewing
- Factitial injury
- Trauma from child abuse
Tongue trauma in infants
- Neuropathologic chewing
- Seizure disorder
- Incorrect use of pacifier, bottle, teething rings
What are conditions with neuropathologic ulcers?
- Familial dysautonomia
- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
- Gaucher disease
- Cerebral palsy
- Tourette syndrome
- Rhett syndrome
- Autism
- Cornelia de Lange syndrome
- Traumatic brain injury
Classification of vascular lesions
- Vascular tumors
- Infantile hemangioma
- Congenital hemangioma
- Pyogenic granuloma (lobular capillary hemangioma)
- Vascular malformations
- Capillary malformation
- Venous malformation
- Lymphatic malformation
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Combined malformations
Vascular malformation
- Present at birth and is persistent; occurs in 0.3% of newborns
- Tends to grow with the child
- Occurs in the head and neck region, including facial skin
- May be associated with skeletal changes and be intrabony
- Red, purple, blue macule, nodule or diffuse swelling
- Low-flow – venous malformation
- High-flow – arteriovenous malformation – bleeding, pain, warmth, palpable thrill or bruit
- Sturge-Weber syndrome: vascular lesion of face and brain, port-wine nevus, risk for seizure disorder
Vascular malformation: Treatment
- Surgery
- Embolization
- Laser treatment for port wine nevus
What do vascular malformations mimic?
- Hemangioma
- Varix
- Eruption cyst/hematoma
- Blue nevus
- Ecchymosis
Hemangioma
- Multiple types, including infantile and congenital
- Neoplasm of vascular origin affecting 5% of infants
- 60% occur in the head and neck region
- May involve major salivary glands, usually parotid
- Lip and tongue are common oral sites
- Normal or reddish-blue skin coloration with swelling
- Rubbery to palpation, may not blanch
- Many regress with age
Hemangioma: Treatment
- Observe
- Propanolol
- Steroids
What do hemangiomas mimic?
- Vascular malformation
- Pyogenic granuloma
- Hematoma
- Mucocele
Lymphatic malformation (lymphangioma, cystic hygroma)
- Hamartomatous growth of lymphatic vessels
- Predilection for head and neck – 50-75%
- 90% develop by 2yo
- Superficial lesions have pink, red or purple with pebbly, vesicular surface
- Cystic hygroma cause a diffuse swelling of cervical region of neck, parotid gland, tongue
- Large lesions can compromise airway
- Lesions rarely progress
Lymphatic malformation (lymphangioma, cystic hygroma): Treatment
May include surgery, sclerotherapy, drugs
What do lymphatic malformations mimic?
- Venous malformation
- Squamous papilloma
- Mucocele
Neonatal alveolar lymphangioma
- Present at birth
- Usually occurs in African American males
- Alveolar ridge; mandible > maxilla
- Translucent pink to blue, fluctuant swelling
Neonatal alveolar lymphangioma: Treatment
None; resolves spontaneously
What do neonatal alveolar lymphangiomas mimic?
- Gingival cyst of newborn
- Eruption cyst
What are rare ST lesions?
- Congenital epulis
- Congenital hamartoma/choristoma
- Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor to infancy
- Hemifacial hyperplasia
- Hemifacial microsomia
Congenital epulis
- ST tumor of uncertain origin
- Occurs in females 90%
- Occurs in maxilla > mandible
- Maxillary lateral and canine region – most common site
- Firm, pink to red mass arising from alveolar mucosa at birth
Congenital epulis: Treatment
- Excision
- May regress
What does congenital epulis mimic?
- Eruption cyst
- Gingival hamartoma
- Pyogenic granuloma
- Fibrous epulis
Congenital hamartoma/choristoma
- ST tumor-like enlargement
- Hamartoma: Overgrowth of normal tissue that belongs at that site.
- Choristoma: Overgrowth of normal tissue that does not belong at that site.
- Tongue and alveolar mucosa are most common sites in infant.
- Firm, pink nodules; single or multiple; nontender
Congenital hamartoma/choristoma: Treatment
- Excisional biopsy
- Exclude syndromes such as orofacialdigital syndrome
What do congenital hamartomas/choristomas mimic?
- Irritation fibroma
- Congenital epulis
- Lipoma
- Peripheral ossifying fibroma
Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy
- Tumor of neural crest origin
- Usually occurs in 1st year of life
- Most common site: Anterior maxilla
- Rapidly expanding mass of alveolus
- Frequently pigmented – blue or black
- Displacement of teeth
- Lab – elevated urinary levels of vanillylmandelic acid
- Radiograph – Poorly circumscribed RL with floating teeth; may have sun ray pattern
Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy: Treatment
- Prognosis
- Excision with margins
- 20% recur
What do melanotic neuroectodermal tumors of infancy mimic?
- Congenital epulis
- Intrabony vascular malformation
- Malignancy
Hemifacial hyperplasia
- Unilateral oral and facial enlargement
- Usually evident at birth
- Right side > left side
- Involves ST, bone, tongue, palate, teeth
- Teeth may exfoliate and erupt prematurely
- Intellectual disability in 20%
- Increased incidence of abdominal tumors (Wilms tumor, hepatoblastoma, adrenal cortical carcinoma)
Hemifacial hyperplasia: Treatment
Evaluate for syndrome, cosmetic surgery, orthodontics
Hemifacial hyperplasia: Associated syndromes
- Neurofibromatosis
- Beckwith-Wiedemann
- McCune-Albright
- Others…
Hemifacial hyperplasia: Mimics
Segmental odontomaxillary dysplasia
Hemifacial microsomia
- Anomalies of 1st and 2nd branchial arch
- Sporadic inheritance; rarely AD
- Unilateral microtia, microstomia and failure of formation of mandibular ramus and condyle
- Unknown etiology
- Frequent eye and skeletal involvement
- 50% have cardiac pathology – VSD, PDA
What condition(s) are hemifacial microsomia associated with?
Goldenhar syndrome
What does hemifacial hyperplasia mimic?
- Localized scleroderma
- Unilateral TMJ ankylosis
- Fracture
Wipeable white lesions
- Coated tongue
- Pseudomembranous candidiasis (thrush)
- Moriscatio (cheek or lip chewing)
- Chemical burn
- Toothpaste or mouthwash reaction
Non-wipeable white lesions
- Bilateral/Symmetrical
- Lina alba
- Leukoedema
- Reticular lichen planus
- White sponge nevus
- Solitary or Multiple
- Smokeless tobacco keratosis
- Pachyonychia congenita
- Dyskeratosis congenita
- Hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis
What are common white lesions
- Pseudomembranous candidiasis
- Coated tongue
- Leukoedema
- Frictional keratosis/cheek- and tongue-biting (moriscatio) lesions
- Mucosal burn (thermal, chemical)
- Mucosal sloughing (toothpaste, mouthwash reaction)
- Benign migratory glossitis (erythema migrans, geographic tongue) – see red, purple, blue lesions
- Fordyce granules
Coated tongue
- Collection of bacteria and sloughed epithelial cells on dorsal
- Contributing factors include xerostomia, mouth-breathing, sinusitis, poor OH, febrile conditions, dehydration
- Cream-colored or tan film that is non-adherent
- May be diffuse or localized to posterior tongue
- May contribute to halitosis
Coated tongue: Treatment
- Improve hydration
- Gently debride dorsal tongue
- Improve OH
What does coated tongue mimic?
- Pseudomembranous candidiasis
- White hairy tongue
Leukoedema
- Variation of normal oral mucosa
- Most commonly observed in blacks, occurring in 50% of children
- Most obvious on buccal mucosa
- Bilateral, diffuse, filmy white, adherent, wrinkled mucosa
- Stretching of mucosa causes lesions to be less prominent
- Increase thickness of mucosa, intracellular edema of spinous layer
Leukoedema: Treatment
None
What does leukoedema mimic?
- Cheek-biting keratosis
- White sponge nevus
Frictional keratosis/cheek- and tongue-biting (moriscatio) lesions
- Caused by low grade, chronic irritation that is usually obvious, especially chronic nibbling of mucosa
- Usually on gingiva, buccal mucosa, lateral tongue
- White, smooth to shaggy, adherent patches; non-tender
- May observe a prominent linea alba on buccal mucosa
Frictional keratosis/cheek- and tongue-biting (moriscatio) lesions: Treatment
None; reversible lesion
What do frictional keratosis/cheek- and tongue-biting (moriscatio) lesions mimic?
- Cinnamon contact reaction
- Smokeless tobacco keratosis
- Leukoplakia
- Chronic hyperplastic candidiasis
Mucosal burn (thermal, chemical)
- Thermal burn is common due to pizza, soup, hot beverages
- Usually occurs on the palate and tongue
- Chemical burn is caused by a number of agents:
- Aspirin
- Formocresol
- Ferric sulfate
- Phosphoric acid
- Phenol
- Usually occurs on gingiva, buccal, labial mucosa, perioral skin
- Irregular white necrotic patch that wipes off or red erosion; tender
Mucosal burn (thermal, chemical): Treatment
Palliative tx only; most resolve in several days
What do mucosal burns (thermal, chemical) mimic?
- Pseudomembranous candidiasis
- Toothpaste or mouthwash reaction
- Cotton roll burn
- Mucous patch of secondary syphilis
Benign migratory glossitis (erythema migrans, geographic tongue)
- Cause is unknown, but associated with atopy
- Dorsal tongue usually
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Multiple oval to circular, red to pink patches of desquamated filiform papillae
- May be surrounded by white border
- Does not wipe off
- Pattern moves around
- May be tender especially with acidic or spicy foods
- May be seen with transient lingual papillitis
Benign migratory glossitis (erythema migrans, geographic tongue): Treatment
Palliative tx as needed
Persistent condition
What does benign migratory glossitis (erythema migrans, geographic tongue) mimic?
- Median rhomboid glossitis
- Lichen planus
- Contact mucositis
- Mucosal erosion
Fordyce granules
- Ectopic sebaceous glands in oral mucosa
- Becomes more prominent during puberty
- Common sites: Buccal mucosa, lips
- Flat to slightly elevated, submucosal yellow-white papules or plaques
Fordyce granules: Treatment
None
What do fordyce granules mimic?
- Pustules
- Frictional keratosis
- Milia (lips)
What are uncommon white lesions?
- Smokeless tobacco keratosis
- White hairy tongue
Smokeless tobacco keratosis
- Caused by chewing tobacco, snuff, snus
- Occurs in vestibular mucosa
- White, wrinkled, adherent plaque; gingival recession, stained, sensitive teeth, root caries, halitosis
Malignant transformation is rare
Smokeless tobacco keratosis: Treatment
- D/c habit
- Biopsy persistent lesions
What does smokeless tobacco keratosis mimic?
- Frictional keratosis
- Cinnamon contact reaction
- Chronic hyperplastic candidiasis
White hairy tongue
- Accumulation of keratin on filiform papillae
- Occurs on dorsal tongue
- Cause is unknown; xerostomia, poor OH, tobacco smoking, in adolescents
- Multiple cream-colored to brown, slender surface projections
- May have thick matted appearance
- Adherent but the discoloration can be partially removed
White hairy tongue: Treatment
- Improve hydration
- Brush tongue
- D/c cigarette smoking
What does white hairy tongue mimic?
- Coated tongue
- Pseudomembranous candidiasis
What are rare white lesions?
- Lichen planus
- Chronic hyperplastic candidiasis
- Hairy leukoplakia
- White sponge nevus
- Hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis (HBID)
- Koplik spots
Lichen planus
- Chronic mucocutaneous disease – rare in children
- Cause:
- T-cell mediated autoimmune disease
- Some cases represent a contact allergy (lichenoid reaction)
- Affects both oral mucosa + skin (esp. extremities)
- Oral sites:
- Buccal mucosa
- Gingiva
- Tongue
- White lacy lines (Wickham striae) w/ red background
- Bilateral + symmetrical
- Burns
- Waxes and wanes
- May have a secondary candidal infection
Lichen planus: Treatment
- Incisional biopsy
- Topical steroids
- Antifungal agents
What does lichen planus mimic?
- Cinnamon contact reaction
- Cheek-biting keratosis
- Benign migratory glossitis
Chronic hyperplastic candidiasis
- Chronic mucocutaneous disease
- Some cases associated with endocrine disease + autoimmune disorders
- Site:
- Anterior buccal mucosa and tongue
- May have nail involvement
- White, wrinkled adherent plaques that are adherent
- Distinctive raised border
- May be tender
Chronic hyperplastic candidiasis: Treatment
- Incisional biopsy
- Antifungal agents
What does chronic hyperplastic candidiasis mimic?
- Cinnamon reaction
- Cheek- and tongue-biting keratosis
- Lichen planus
- Hairy leukoplakia
Hairy leukoplakia
- Cause: Latent infection of Epstein-Barr virus
- Contributing factors:
- Immunosuppression
- HIV infection
- Site: Ventrolateral tongue
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White sponge nevus
- Autosomal dominant mucocutaneous disease
- Diffuse, white, thickened, adherent and wrinkled oral mucosa
- May be present at birth, becomes more prominent in adolescence
- The gingival margin and dorsal tongue are almost never affected. The soft palate and ventrolateral tongue are commonly involved.
White sponge nevus: Treatment
None. Persistent condition
What does white sponge nevus mimic?
- Leukoedema
- Cinnamon reaction
- Hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis
Hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis (HBID)
- Autosomal dominant mucocutaneous disease
- Affects individuals of mixed white, American Indian, and black ancestry living in North Carolina
- Appears similar to white sponge nevus, but affects the eyes
- May cause visual impairment
Koplik spots
- Oral manifestation of measles (rubeola)
- Observed in the initial stage of viral infection
- Site: Buccal mucosa and soft palate
- Multiple, tiny white macules that wipe off (grains of sand appearance)
Koplik spots: Treatment
Refer to pediatrician
What do Koplik spots mimic?
- Pseudomembranous candidiasis
- Mucosal burn
- Mucosal sloughing
Which red lesions are diascopy positive?
Blanch
- Hemangioma/Vascular malformation
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome
- Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
Which red lesions are diascopy negative?
Do not blanch
- Submucosal hemorrhage
- Petechial hemorrhage
- Thrombocytopenia
- Infectious mononucleosis
Which red lesions are non-vascular?
- Traumatic erythema
- Thermal burns
Diascopy positive
Blanch w/ pressure
Diascopy negative
Do not blanch w/ pressure
What are common red lesions?
- Acute gingivitis
- Submucosal hemorrhage
- Traumatic erythema
- Thermal burn
What are uncommon red lesions?
- Vascular malformation
- Glossitis
What are rare red lesions?
- Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Sturge-Weber angiomatosis
- Acquired coagulation disturbance
- Plasminogen deficiency
- Thrombocytopenia
- Hemophilia
- Factor VIII
- Factor IX
- von Willebrand disease
- Vitamin K deficiency
- Hepatobiliary disease
Acute gingivitis
- Plaque-induced inflammatory lesion
- Lesions may blanch with pressure due to vascular dilation
- Nontender, red, swollen lesions that may bleed w/ brushing
- Tx: Improved OH; reversible lesion
Submucosal hemorrhage
Diascopy negative
- Entrapment or pooling of blood in tissues
- Blue-gray color due to hemosiderin deposition
- Does not blanch
- Causes:
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Traumatic (common)
- May be associated w/ child abuse
- Suspect repeated trauma or chronic condition if multiple colors of bruising are present
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Nontraumatic (uncommon)
- Blood dyscrasia
- Viral infection (infectious mononucleosis, measles)
- Anticoagulants
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Traumatic (common)
- Terms: Petechiae, purpura, ecchymosis, hematoma
- Site: Lip and mucosa along occlusal plane
- Pinpoint to macular to diffuse red, purple or blue lesions
- Usually nontender
Submucosal hemorrhage: Treatment
Resolves in 1-2 weeks. If recurrent, important to identify cause
Traumatic erythema
Non-vascular
- Irritation resulting in erosion of mucosa
- Do not blanch w/ pressure
- Site: Any mucosal site
- Red macule w/ irregular margins; usually tender
- May be associated w/ child abuse