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Oral focal mucinosis in an adolescent: A rare entity [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is an extremely rare benign lesion of the oral cavity with unknown etiology, considered the oral counterpart of cutaneous focal mucinosis. It occurs mainly in women in the fourth and fifth decades of life.
Arghavan Tonkaboni, Kimia Hafezi Motlagh, Samira Derakhshan   +2 more
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Diagnosis and treatment of oral focal mucinosis: a case series [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019
Background Oral focal mucinosis, the oral counterpart of cutaneous focal mucinosis, is a rare disease. As it has no characteristic clinical or radiological features, diagnosis is established by histopathological and immunohistological examination.
Yusuke Higuchi, Fumihiko Tsushima, Kanako Sumikura, Yuriko Sato, Hiroyuki Harada, Kou Kayamori, Tohru Ikeda   +6 more
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Oral focal mucinosis of the hard palate and gingiva [PDF]

Autopsy and Case Reports, 2018
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is an uncommon, asymptomatic, submucosal, slow-growing nodule representing a counterpart of the cutaneous focal mucinosis (CFM). OFM has a female predilection with the highest prevalence in the fifth decade of life.
Priscila Lie Tobouti, Fernando Kendi Horikawa, Bruno Fernandes Matuck, Suzana Cantanhede Orsini Machado de Sousa, Fábio Abreu Alves   +4 more
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Oral Focal Mucinosis of the Tongue: A Rare Clinical Case [PDF]

European Journal of Inflammation, 2012
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is a rare mucosal lesion of unknown etiopathogenesis. It is considered the oral counterpart of cutaneous focal mucinosis. From the anatomo-pathological point of view it is characterised by a focal degeneration of myxoid type of
L. Pacifici, D. Meleo, G. Pompa, A. Pacifici, G. Gambarini, L. Testarelli   +5 more
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A case of oral focal mucinosis of gingiva: Lesion in disguise

Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology, 2015
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is a rare soft tissue lesion of unknown aetiology. Clinically, it is most commonly found on the gingiva and presents as a painless, sessile or pedunculated mass.
Chaitanya Pradeep Joshi, Nitin Hemchandra Dani, Swapna Arunkumar Mahale, Nikita Rajendrakumar Patel   +3 more
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Oral focal mucinosis of the tongue: A rare clinical entity?

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases, 2017
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is regarded as a very rare clinical entity with only 62 cases previously reported in the literature. The majority of these cases have been present on gingiva and only 3 cases have been diagnosed on the tongue.
U. Mattsson, P. Lindberg
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Oral focal mucinosis: case report. [PDF]

Oral Implantol (Rome), 2008
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is an uncommon disease of unknown aetiology. It is considered to be the oral counterpart of cutaneous focal mucinosis and cutaneous myxoid cyst and it is characterized by a focal myxoid degeneration of the connective tissue. A preoperative diagnosis is almost impossible, and the clinical suspicion, usually made by exclusion ...
Germano F, Abate R, Santini F, Dri M, Arcuri C.   +4 more
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Comparative Clinicopathological Analysis of Oral Focal Mucinosis and Solitary Cutaneous Focal Mucinosis: A Case Series and Literature-Based Analysis [PDF]

Dermatopathology
Background/Objectives: Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) and solitary cutaneous focal mucinosis (SCFM) are rare, benign lesions characterized by localized mucin deposition in the stromal connective tissue.
Wickramasinghe Mudiyanselage Sithma Nilochana Wickramasinghe, Primali Rukmal Jayasooriya, Balapuwaduge Ranjit Rigobert Nihal Mendis, Tommaso Lombardi   +3 more
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Oral focal mucinosis of the mandible in an adolescent patient. [PDF]

BMJ Case Rep, 2019
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is the rare oral manifestation of cutaneous focal mucinosis. It is a diagnosis made histopathologically, as OFM remains clinically similar to other more common oral lesions, and radiographs do not provide any diagnostic information.
Cho JJ, Shupak RP, Michaels C.
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Large oral focal mucinosis involving the left hemimandible. [PDF]

BMJ Case Rep, 2020
Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) is a relatively rare, benign soft tissue lesion of unknown aetiology. It invariably presents as a localised sessile or pedunculated gingival mass. This paper highlights a case of large OFM involving the left hemimandible in a 37-year-old otherwise healthy patient ...
Nilesh K, Patil R, Kanetkar SR.
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