Lingual striated muscle hamartoma or herniation?
Three grouped, small polypoid lesions were removed from the right lateral border of tongue of a healthy male aged 12 years. They were composed of packed, mature striated muscle fibres covered by oral epithelium and thinned lamina propria. Hamartomatous growth of striated muscle, or herniation through underdeveloped lamina propria is postulated to explain the exceedingly rare clinicopathological features.
Department of Oral Medicine, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and School Dentistry, Liverpool, UK.
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D001485:Basement Membrane / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006547:Hernia / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018485:Muscle Fibers, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology; D014060:Tongue Diseases / Q000473:pathology*