Diagnostic challenges of oral lesions in a patient after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

The objective of this report is to describe 3 diagnostic challenges of oral lesions that affected the same posttransplant patient: an atypical herpes simplex virus lesion in ventral tongue, a gingival actinomycosis infection, and later a leukemic infiltration on the soft palate. A 57-year-old female patient first complained of a progressive and painful sublingual nodule for 3 days at D+35 of HSCT by extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, and final diagnoses were atypical herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 infection.
Source: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Source Type: research