Biomaterial Database

Focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck's disease). 2001

G T Terezhalmy, and C K Riley, and W S Moore

Dental Diagnostic Science, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D003937	Diagnosis, Differential	Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.	Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D017573	Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia	Hyperplasia of the mucous membrane of the lips, tongue, and less commonly, the buccal mucosa, floor of the mouth, and palate, presenting soft, painless, round to oval sessile papules about 1 to 4 mm in diameter. The condition usually occurs in children and young adults and has familial predilection, lasting for several months, sometimes years, before running its course. A viral etiology is suspected, the isolated organism being usually the human papillomavirus. (Jablonski, Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry; Belshe, Textbook of Human Virology, 2d ed, p954)	Heck's Disease,Hyperplasia, Focal Epithelial,Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia, Oral,Heck Disease,Disease, Heck,Disease, Heck's,Epithelial Hyperplasia, Focal,Epithelial Hyperplasias, Focal,Focal Epithelial Hyperplasias,Hecks Disease,Hyperplasias, Focal Epithelial