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Case 36 - Oral Myofibroma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2019

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Alessandro Franchi
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Alessandro Franchi
Alessandro Franchi
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
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Summary

A 35-year-old female presented with a nontender hard nodule, covered by normal appearing mucosa, localized in the right superior fornix of the oral cavity. The lesion measured approximately 0.8 × 0.5 cm. An excisional biopsy was performed.

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Pearls and Pitfalls in Head and Neck Pathology , pp. 78 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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