Granular cell tumor: case report
Patient D.S.O., a 38-year-old black woman who was a smoker for 27 years, sought dental care complaining of “a ball that appeared on the tongue after eating fish and the fishbone stuck into the tongue.” There was a gradual volumetric increase in region corresponding to the dorsum of the tongue for 5 years. On intraoral examination, a soft tissue nodule was found on the dorsum of the tongue, which was exophytic, sessile, single, well-delimited, elliptical, of firm consistency, smooth, white, asymptomatic, and measured about 5 cm.
Source: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: H ÉRIKA CRISTINA SILVA DE SOUZA, SIMONE HENRIQUES MACHADO, ANA FLÁVIA SCHUELER DE ASSUMPÇÃO LEITE, ADRIANA TEREZINHA NEVES NOVELLINO ALVES, LUCIANA WERNERSBACH PINTO, SIMONE DE QUEIROZ CHAVES LOURENÇO Source Type: research