CASE REPORT
Oral Leiomyoma in an Adult Male: A Case Report
Amanda Phoon Nguyen*, Agnieszka M Frydrych
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
First Page: 520
Last Page: 526
Publisher ID: TODENTJ-11-520
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601711010520
Article History:
Received Date: 26/04/2017Revision Received Date: 15/08/2017
Acceptance Date: 14/09/2017
Electronic publication date: 24/10/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Introduction:
Oral leiomyomas are rare, benign neoplasms of smooth muscle origin, presenting as a solitary, asymptomatic, nodular mass.
Case Presentation:
Here we present the case of a 54-year-old male with a lesion in the midline of his hard palate, which was diagnosed as a localized benign leiomyoma, along with a review of the recent literature.
Discussion:
Diagnosis of a leiomyoma must be based on the histopathological assessment of tissue as the clinical appearance is non-specific. The peak prevalence of head and neck leiomyoma is observed in the 4th and 5th decade of life with uncertain gender predilection. Histological features include interlacing fascicles of smooth muscle small cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm. Complete excision is usually curative and recurrence is rare.
Conclusion:
Due to their rare nature, it is important that cases of oral leiomyoma can be reported in the literature to improve our understanding of this entity.
