title: [Lingual osteoma. Apropos of a case].
abstract: The authors present a case of osteoma of the tongue. This tumor was discovered without any functional symptom. Surgical resection with histological examination gives the diagnostic. This choristoma is rare, benign and clinically poor. Osteoma of the tongue is a heterotopic bone tissue and his main differential diagnosis are lingual thyroid and thyroglossal cyst. There are several opinions concerning the histogenesis of this choristoma, but an embryological anomaly is probable. Surgical removal of the tumor is curative, without any reported local recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Clinique de Stomatologie et de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale, CHU de Nantes.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pineau
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Billet
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Auffrey
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Piot
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mercier
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones; D002648:Child; D002828:Choristoma / Q000196:embryology / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010016:Osteoma / Q000473:pathology*; D013955:Thyroglossal Cyst / Q000473:pathology; D013961:Thyroid Gland; D014060:Tongue Diseases / Q000196:embryology / Q000473:pathology; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*