medigraphic.com
ISSN 2992-7757 (Electronic)
Órgano de difusión de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Cirugía y Traumatología Bucomaxilofacial (ALACIBU)

2023, Number 3

<< Back Next >>

Lat Am J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2023; 3 (3)

Lipoma of the floor of the mouth. Atypical presentation

Bustamante G, Cedeño A, Pérez L, López P, Ruiz K

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 136-138
PDF size: 169.14 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: lipomas are benign neoplasms originating from adipose tissue and are considered relatively common in various anatomic regions. The common site for oral lipoma is the buccal mucosa, followed by the tongue, lips, floor of the mouth, vestibule, palate, gingiva and retromolar region. Objective: to present a case of a male patient with histopathologic diagnosis of intraoral lipoma that was treated by surgical excision without recurrence or complications. Clinical case: a 58-year-old male patient presented with an increase in volume on the floor of the mouth. The intraoral clinical examination revealed an increase of yellowish volume on the floor of the mouth, predominantly on the left side, circumscribed, depressible to palpation. An excisional biopsy of the lesion described above was performed, giving as histopathological diagnosis lipoma of the floor of the mouth. Conclusion: intraoral lipomas are a rare entity, which can be noticed only during routine dental examinations. In the present case, this lesion on the floor of the mouth corresponds to one of the less frequently reported locations in the literature. The diagnosis of oral lipomas is usually clinical and surgical, but histopathology remains the gold standard.


REFERENCES

  1. Pires FR, Souza L, Arruda R, Cantisano MH, Picciani BL, Dos Santos TC. Intraoral soft tissue lipomas: clinicopathological features from 91 cases diagnosed in a single Oral Pathology service. Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. 2021; 26 (1): e90-e96.

  2. Ramakrishnan K, Palanivel I, Narayanan V, Banu M. Unusually large submucosal mandibular lipoma of buccal vestibule: a case report and review of literature. J Dent Shiraz Univ Med Sci. 2022; 23 (1): 76-79.

  3. Taira Y, Yasukawa K, Yamamori I, Iino M. Oral lipoma extending superiorly from mandibular gingivobuccal fold to gingiva: a case report and analysis of 207 patients with oral lipoma in Japan. Odontology. 2012; 100: 104-108.

  4. Azzouz Y, Abidi S, Zidane FZ, Chbicheb S. An unusual intraoral lipoma: case report and review of the literature. Pan Afr Med J. 2022; 41: 336. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2022.41.336.34808.

  5. Perez-Sayáns M, Blanco-Carrión A, Oliveira-Alves MG, Almeida JD, Anbinder AL, Lafuente-Ibáñez de Mendoza I, et al. Multicentre retrospective study of 97 cases of intraoral lipoma. J Oral Pathol Med. 2019; 48 (6): 499-504.

  6. Varma BR, Kumar KS, Verghese RS, Janardhanan M. Unusual presentation of lipoma on the tongue. BMJ Case Rep. 2020; 13 (4): e232485.

  7. Kumar LK, Kurien NM, Raghavan VB, Menon PV, Khalam SA. Intraoral lipoma: a case report. Case Rep Med. 2014; 2014: 480130.

  8. Motagi A, Aminzadeh A, Razavi SM. Large oral lipoma: Case report and literature review in Iran. Dent Res J (Isfahan). 2012; 9 (3): 350-352.

  9. Rikhotso RE, Mhlanga G, Bobat M. Giant lipoma of the head and neck region: case report and review of the literature. Open Journal of Stomatology. 2017; 7: 469-474.




2020     |     www.medigraphic.com