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Oral Growth
Aka: Oral Growth, Oral Tumor- Pre-malignant lesions
- Benign
- Fibroma, Hemangioma, Papilloma
- Can occur anywhere in oral cavity
- Excise if symptomatic
- Exostoses: Torus palatinus
- Bony growth of Hard Palate
- Surgery only if prosthetic device needed
- Fibroma, Hemangioma, Papilloma
- Malignant
- Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Salivary Gland Adenocarcinoma
- Oral Melanoma (rare)
- Management
- Biopsy any suspicious lesion present 2 weeks or more
- References
- Diaz in Noble (2001) Primary Care Medicine, p. 1757
- Weinberg (2002) Am Fam Physician 65(7):1379-86