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Ming-Chin Lan, MD; Tzu-Yu Huang, MD; Tze-Yi Lin, MD; Ming-Ying Lan, MD
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei (Dr M.-C. Lan), Chutung Veterans Hospital, Chutung (Dr Huang), Hsin Chu General Hospital, Hsin-chu (Dr Lin), Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung (Dr M.-Y. Lan), and Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei (Dr M.-Y. Lan), Taiwan

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007;133(4):411.

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A 60-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of a slow-growing, indurated, nontender submucosal mass, measuring 1x1 cm, on the mucosal aspect of his lower lip. The lesion did not decrease in size despite oral antibiotic treatment for 2 weeks at another hospital. Clinical examination of the oral cavity showed no carious teeth, with no associated cervical lymphadenopathy. There was no history of trauma to the lips, and the patient's medical history was generally unremarkable. A minor salivary gland tumor was initially suspected. A local anesthetic was administered, and the lesion was excised completely with a safe margin.

Histopathologic examination showed that the lesion consisted of a large central abscess contained within a fibrous tissue wall with adjacent minor salivary gland tissues. Several basophilic sulfur granules appeared as pink amorphous masses located within the abscess on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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