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[Lingual osteoma. Apropos of a case]. 1997

A Pineau, and J Billet, and N Auffrey, and B Piot, and J Mercier

Clinique de Stomatologie et de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale, CHU de Nantes.

The authors present a case of osteoma of the tongue. This tumor was discovered without any functional symptom. Surgical resection with histological examination gives the diagnostic. This choristoma is rare, benign and clinically poor. Osteoma of the tongue is a heterotopic bone tissue and his main differential diagnosis are lingual thyroid and thyroglossal cyst. There are several opinions concerning the histogenesis of this choristoma, but an embryological anomaly is probable. Surgical removal of the tumor is curative, without any reported local recurrence.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010016	Osteoma	A benign tumor composed of bone tissue or a hard tumor of bonelike structure developing on a bone (homoplastic osteoma) or on other structures (heteroplastic osteoma). (From Dorland, 27th ed)	Osteomas
D001842	Bone and Bones	A specialized CONNECTIVE TISSUE that is the main constituent of the SKELETON. The principal cellular component of bone is comprised of OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; and OSTEOCLASTS, while FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS and hydroxyapatite crystals form the BONE MATRIX.	Bone Tissue,Bone and Bone,Bone,Bones,Bones and Bone,Bones and Bone Tissue,Bony Apophyses,Bony Apophysis,Condyle,Apophyses, Bony,Apophysis, Bony,Bone Tissues,Condyles,Tissue, Bone,Tissues, Bone
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002828	Choristoma	A mass of histologically normal tissue present in an abnormal location.	Aberrant Tissue,Ectopic Tissue,Heterotopic Tissue,Aberrant Tissues,Choristomas,Ectopic Tissues,Heterotopic Tissues,Tissue, Aberrant,Tissue, Ectopic,Tissue, Heterotopic,Tissues, Aberrant,Tissues, Ectopic,Tissues, Heterotopic
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
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013955	Thyroglossal Cyst	A cyst in the neck caused by persistence of portions of, or by lack of closure of, the primitive thyroglossal duct. (Dorland, 27th ed)	Thyroglossal Duct Cyst,Thyrolingual Cyst,Cyst, Thyroglossal,Cyst, Thyroglossal Duct,Cyst, Thyrolingual,Cysts, Thyroglossal,Cysts, Thyroglossal Duct,Cysts, Thyrolingual,Thyroglossal Cysts,Thyroglossal Duct Cysts,Thyrolingual Cysts
D013961	Thyroid Gland	A highly vascularized endocrine gland consisting of two lobes joined by a thin band of tissue with one lobe on each side of the TRACHEA. It secretes THYROID HORMONES from the follicular cells and CALCITONIN from the parafollicular cells thereby regulating METABOLISM and CALCIUM level in blood, respectively.	Thyroid,Gland, Thyroid,Glands, Thyroid,Thyroid Glands,Thyroids
D014060	Tongue Diseases	Diseases involving the TONGUE.	Microglossia,Disease, Tongue,Diseases, Tongue,Microglossias,Tongue Disease