title: Herniation of an antral polyp through an oroantral fistula.
abstract: This paper reports a case of herniation of an antral polyp through an oroantral fistula, appearing as a polypoid lesion of the alveolar ridge. The patient was a 24-year-old female, and her upper molar had been extracted two months previously. The lesion was asymptomatic, and was a soft tissue mass, red in color and nontender to palpation, involving the alveolar ridge in the maxillary molar area. Review of the literature yielded only a few other such cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Pathology, School of Dentistry, Iwate Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takeda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006547:Hernia; D006801:Humans; D008444:Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D009957:Oroantral Fistula / Q000473:pathology*; D011127:Polyps / Q000473:pathology*