Unusual benign smooth muscle lesions of the tongue: review and report of two cases.
Benign smooth muscle proliferations are relatively rare in the oral cavity. Most are classified as angioleiomyomas, some as hamartomatous growths and a few as cutaneous-type leiomyomas. We present two cases of benign smooth muscle proliferations in the tongue, provide a review, briefly discuss histogenesis and offer a clinico-pathological differential diagnosis.
DSB 4015, Division of Oral Pathology, Department of Pathology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada. mark.darling@schulich.uwo.ca
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Darling
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Wehrli
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Zeligman
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Smillie
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Daley
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000473:pathology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*