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ArticleTrauma case reports2020

Oral cyst-like nodule caused by a long standing unusual embedded foreign object: Report of a case.

Shokoufeh Shahrabi-Farahani, Saede Atarbashi-Moghadam, Ali Lotfi, Fazele Atarbashi-Moghadam

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Article in Trauma case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shokoufeh Shahrabi-FarahaniDepartment of Diagnostic Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Dentistry, TN, USA.
Saede Atarbashi-MoghadamDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ali LotfiOral and Maxillofacial Pathologist, Private Practice, Iran.
Fazele Atarbashi-MoghadamDepartment of Periodontics, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic implantation of foreign material in the oral mucosa is unusual and may occur. In this article, we report the presence of an unusual foreign object associated with a cyst-like inflammatory response in a 50-year-old male. The patient presented with a painless recurrent soft tissue swelling in the anterior vestibule of maxilla of at least 2-year duration. The lesion was surgically excised and a retained shrapnel-like object within a cyst-like and thick-walled structure was obtained. Histopathologically, the cyst-like structure exhibited a lymphohistiocytic infiltrate in the wall and a luminal synovial metaplasia-like change, predominantly composed of histiocytes. Immunohistochemical stain of CD163 highlighted the histiocytes. The patient stated a history of traumatic implantation of shrapnel fragments in the area that occurred 30 years ago due to an explosion in the Iran-Iraq war.

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Cyst-like, shrapnelForeign materialOral mucosaSynovial metaplasia

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PMID31872032
PMCPMC6909335
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