Lingual Osseous Choristoma: Case Presentation and Review of Literature
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Lingual Osseous Choristoma Case report and review of literature
Lingual osseous choristoma is an extremely rare condition, of which only 61 cases have been reported. Monserrat in 1913 was the first to report this bony lesion on the dorsum of the tongue and it was labelled as lingual osteoma, the term that normally describes neoplastic pathology. Krolls et al changed this term later to osseous choristoma, which means normal tissue in an abnormal location. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Libyan Journal of Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1993-2820,1819-6357
DOI: 10.4176/061211