Chapter 1
A circumscribed, elevated lesion filled with serous fluid, greater than 5 mm in diameter.
What is bulla?
What develops from stem cells in bone marrow and matures and resides in lymphoid tissue?
What are B-Cell Lymphocytes?
This term describes a cyst that is not lined by epithelium.
What is a pseudocyst?
Which virus is associated with oropharyngeal cancer?
What is HPV? (human papillomavirus)
Vitamin B12 deficiency most commonly results in this oral clinical finding.
What is angular cheilitis or atrophic glossitis?
Performed when a lesion is small and can be totally removed.
What is an excisional biopsy?
Lesion that causes a diffuse swelling as a result of increased permeability of deeper blood vessels?
What is Angioedema?
Congenital syphilis often result in three clinical manifestations, known as this term.
What is the Huchinson triad?
A new growth of tissue that in which growth is uncontrolled and progressive?
What is a neoplasm?
Addison disease is characterized by an insufficiency in these two hormones.
What is glucocorticoid and alcorticoid (cortisol and aldosterone)?
A variation of normal characterized by red-to-purple, enlarged vessels on the dorsal surface of the tongue.
What are lingual varicosities?
Autoimmune disease that affects both major and minor salivary glands and results in a decrease in saliva and tears causing xerostomia?
What is Sjorens syndrome?
This term is a nonaggressive, cystic lesion lined by odontogenic epithelium and often includes ghost cells.
What is calcifying odontogenic cyst (COC)?
A tumor that invades and destroys surrounding tissue and has the ability to spread throughout the body?
What is a malignant tumor?
Endocrine disorder that affects the anterior pituitary gland?
What is Hyperpituitarism?
Variation of normal characterized by devoid patches of filiform papillae and distinct fungiform papillae on the ventral surface of the tongue.
What is erythema migrans (geographic tongue)?
Autoimmune disease that is recognized by a butterfly rash on the bridge of the nose?
What is Lupus Erythematosus?
This odontogenic cyst is lined by epithelium that is 8-10 layers thick and is surfaced by parakeratin. It is most often seen in the mandibular third molar region.
What is a keratocyst (OKC)?
A tumor that remains localized and does not have the ability to spread throughout the body?
What is a benign tumor?
Individuals with uncontrolled diabetes often develop this oral infection.
What is oral candidiasis?
The final step in the diagnostic process.
What is differential diagnosis?
Chronic recurrent autoimmune disease that primarily associates with oral ulcers, genital ulcers, and ocular inflammation. Usually treated with systemic and topical antibiotics.
What is Behcet's syndrome?
This odontogenic cyst is characterized by forming in the place of a third molar.
What is primordial cyst?
A benign tumor of squamous epithelium, may be white or the color of normal mucosa, most often found on the soft palate or tongue, and is a small exophytic pedunculated or sessile growth?
What is a papilloma?
Type of Anemia that is an inherited blood disorder and is characterized by a low RBC, and can be diagnosed by the cells shape on a blood smear?
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?