Oral submucous fibrosis in a young patient.
A seventeen-year-old male presented with a restriction in the oral cavity. The oral mucosa was white and he could not protrude his tongue. For 4 years he had habitually held a powdery material containing betel nut in the oral vestibule for several minutes a day. A biopsy of the labial mucosa was carried out and a diagnosis of oral submucous fibrosis was confirmed. This is a premalignant condition. Oral submucous fibrosis is very rare in young patients.
Yazdanpanah
Mohammad Javad
MJ
Department of Dermatology, Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad , Iran. yazdanpanahmj@mums.ac.ir
Banihashemi
Mahnaz
M
Pezeshkpoor
Fakhrozaman
F
Famili
Soroor
S
Layegh
Pouran
P
Katebi
Mehrdad
M
Hamidi
Hamid
H
D000293:Adolescent; D001114:Areca; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D009914:Oral Submucous Fibrosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*