This study illustrates the potential of lubricant, mucus, and foreign body contaminant materials to cause interpretation errors in TP cervical cytology. Although liquid-based preparation reduces the obscuring effect of these materials, the unusual appearance of some of these particles in TP cervical smears not only can mimic infectious microorganisms, but also squamous dyskaryosis. This can lead to serious interpretation errors for the inexperienced cytotechnologists and pathologists, which subsequently can have an effect on the women's management.
Even though actinomyces are common oral commensals, actinomycosis is an uncommon oral infection. Cheek dimple creation is a common surgical procedure with rare complications. Bacterial infection with abscess formation and foreign body reaction were reported. We report a rare example-and, to our knowledge, the first-of oral actinomycosis after cheek dimple creation. A young woman complained of a chronic tender nodule of the right buccal mucosa with pus discharge after surgery for cheek dimple creation. Histologic examination showed a sinus tract with actinomyces microorganisms. This complication can be mimicked by other oral or dental sinus-forming lesions, can be chronic and insidious, and could therefore clinically be missed or mistreated. This might delay the diagnosis and cause scarring and disfigurement. The treatment of choice is early recognition and complete surgical excision to avoid irreversible complications and prevent recurrence. Awareness of this potential complication by aesthetic surgeons, oral clinicians, and dentists is important. Patients' adherence to preventive measures and plastic surgeons' application of inclusion criteria and contraindications, as well as their choice of best technique per patient, should help minimize such a problem in a simple and safe aesthetic procedure.
Level of evidence: 5
Objective: To report the first operated and histopathologically studied case of spontaneously resolving solitary osteochondroma. Case Presentation and Identification: An 18-year-old girl presented with leg pain of 2 months’ duration. She had been diagnosed to have a proximal tibial osteochondroma since the age of 9 years. Excision biopsy of the tumor remnant and its surrounding tissue was done after CT and MRI imaging. Conclusion: The spontaneous resolution of this case could have been due to simultaneous interruption of blood supply to the tumor and its cartilaginous cap or hyperemia around the tumor.
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