title: Traumatic neuroma in the lower lip arising following laser/cryosurgery to treat a mucocele.
abstract: A 15-year-old girl presented with a painless recurrent swelling on her right lower lip mucosa for about 10 months. She had a past history of treatment with laser surgery and cryosurgery. The clinical diagnosis was a 'recurrent mucocele'. Histopathological examination of the surgical specimen revealed a mucocele close to a neuroma with irregular nerve fascicles, leading to a diagnosis 'mucocele accompanied with a traumatic neuroma'. In the present report, the traumatic neuroma appears to have arisen following laser or cryosurgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Pathology, Kyushu Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan. mi-zhang@kyu-dent.ac.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukuyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kurokawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003452:Cryosurgery / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008047:Lip Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D009078:Mucocele / Q000601:surgery*; D009463:Neuroma / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence