Submucosal nodule in buccal mucosa

Daroit, Natália Batista; Maraschin, Bruna Jalfim; Carrard, Vinícius Coelho; Rados, Pantelis Varvaki; Visioli, Fernanda

doi:10.1016/j.oooo.2016.02.004

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“…Two of them were from France [ 9 , 23 ], and one each was from Italy [ 13 ], Russia [ 18 ], Serbia [ 22 ], and Bulgaria [ 24 ]. Most of the reported cases were from Sri Lanka (nine cases) [ 11 , 17 ] and the rest were from India (five cases) [ 1 , 10 , 12 , 15 , 16 ], Brazil (two cases) [ 19 , 20 ], the United States (one case) [ 21 ], and China (one case) [ 14 ], confirming tropical parts of Asia as endemic areas of Dirofilaria repens infestation. Most of these cases presented as non-painful swelling of the buccal mucosa and were suspected benign tumours, such as lipoma, adenoma, or mucocele [ 17 ], as in our case.…”

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Live Intraoral Dirofilaria repens of Lower Lip Mimicking Mucocele—First Reported Case from Croatia

Škrinjar

Brailo

Brzak

et al. 2022

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Dirofilariasis is an endemic infestation in tropical and subtropical countries caused by about 40 different species. It rarely occurs in the oral cavity and is mostly presented as mucosal and submucosal nodules. Differential diagnoses include lipoma, mucocele, and pleomorphic adenoma. We report a rare case of oral dirofilariasis mimicking mucocele in a 41-year-old male patient from Croatia without an epidemiological history of travelling outside the country. He came in because of non-painful lower lip swelling that had lasted for two months. The parasite was surgically removed from the lesion. This is the first reported case of oral dirofilariasis in Croatia. It is important to point out this rare diagnosis in order to make dentists aware of the possibility of the presence of such an infestation in common lesions of the oral mucosa.

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Live Intraoral Dirofilaria repens of Lower Lip Mimicking Mucocele—First Reported Case from Croatia

Škrinjar

Brailo

Brzak

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Systematic Review of Lesser Known Parasitoses: Maxillofacial Dirofilariasis

Chaudhry

Khatana

Dutt

et al. 2018

J. Maxillofac. Oral Surg.

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Background Dirofilariasis is an endemic disease in tropical and subtropical countries caused by about 40 different species of dirofilari. Dirofilariasis of the oral cavity is extremely rare and is usually seen as mucosal or submucosal nodules. We also present a case of dirofilariasis of the mandibular third molar region submucosally in a 26 year old male patient. Purpose To identify, enlist and analyze the cases of dirofilariasis in maxillofacial region reported worldwide so as to understand the clinical presentation and encourage the consideration of helminthic infections as a possible differential diagnosis in maxillofacial swellings. Methods Two authors KC and SK independently searched the electronic database of PUBMED, OVID, Google Scholar and manual search from other sources. A general search strategy was planned and anatomic areas of interest identified. The search was made within a bracket of 1 month by the independent authors KC and SK who assessed titles, abstracts and full texts of articles based on the decided keywords. The final selection of articles was screened for the cases that were reported in the maxillofacial region including the age, gender, site of occurrence and region of the world reported in. A geographic distribution of the reported cases was tabulated. Results A total number of 265, 97, 1327, 3 articles were identified by PubMed, Ovid, GoogleScholar and manual search respectively. The final articles were manually searched for duplicates and filtered according to the inclusion/exclusion criteria which led to a final list of 58 unique articles that were included in the study. In total 99 cases were identified. Conclusion Although intraoral dirofilarial infections are extremely uncommon, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an intraoral or facial swelling that does not completely respond to routine therapy especially in patients from endemic areas.

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Comments on the clinicopathologic conference case report entitled: “Submucosal nodule in buccal mucosa”

Soares

Carlos²

2018

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology

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Submucosal nodule in buccal mucosa

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References 21 publications

Live Intraoral Dirofilaria repens of Lower Lip Mimicking Mucocele—First Reported Case from Croatia

Live Intraoral Dirofilaria repens of Lower Lip Mimicking Mucocele—First Reported Case from Croatia

Systematic Review of Lesser Known Parasitoses: Maxillofacial Dirofilariasis

Comments on the clinicopathologic conference case report entitled: “Submucosal nodule in buccal mucosa”

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