introduction: the role of laser in conservative management of oral disease is well established. laser procedures are common in the fields of oral surgery, implant dentistry, endodontic, and periodontic therapy. case: this case series describes the use of diode laser for the excision of oral exophytic lesions. all the patients attended the oral medicine department of shahid beheshti university o...

Purpose: To determine whether benign exophytic renal masses can be distinguished from malignant lesions by using the angular interface sign in ultrasonography (US) and computerized tomography (CT). Materials and Methods: A total of 71 cases with exophytic renal mass (2 cm or greater) were examined on the basis of angular interface in US (n = 23), CT (n = 21) and US + CT (n = 16) between January...

Diagnosis of peripheral oral exophytic lesions might be quite challenging. This review article aimed to introduce a decision tree for oral exophytic lesions according to their clinical features. General search engines and specialized databases including PubMed, PubMed Central, Medline Plus, EBSCO, Science Direct, Scopus, Embase, and authenticated textbooks were used to find relevant topics by m...

Colorectal adenomas can be morphologically classified as exophytic or flat. Polypoid cancers and cancers arising de novo (ie., without any adenomatous component) might be the results of genetic progression from exophytic and flat adenomas, respectively. In this study, we examined 94 morphologically distinct neoplastic specimens for mutations in K-RAS and analyzed 10 microsatellite loci tightly ...

Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a common benign intramedullary lesion of the skeleton characterized by proliferation of fibro-osseous tissue. It is viewed as a developmental abnormality that is typically seen in adolescents and young adults. The lesion is usually asymptomatic and many times discovered as an incidental finding. Exophytic FD is an extremely rare variant that has to be differentiated fr...

Traumatic fibroma is a benign exophytic and reactive oral lesion that develops secondary to repetitive trauma or irritation. Most commonly affected sites are tongue, buccal mucosa, lower labial mucosa. These well demarcated, smooth, pedunculated sessile, lesions which similar the surrounding mucosa in color. Generally, it non-tender but local irritation may lead painful ulceration. Treatment pl...

Osteochondroma is the most common benign tumor or tumorlike lesion of bone. The radiographic appearance is often diagnostic, that is, a lesion composed of cortical and medullary bone with a cartilage cap. These lesions may be solitary or multiple, with the latter associated with the syndrome HME. Complications are commonly associated with its exophytic nature and include cosmetic and osseous de...

Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia is one of the rare premalignant white lesions with highest conversion rate to malignancy. It grows gradually and irreversibly multifocal presentation, exophytic appearance. This lesion has been reported resistant all therapeutic approaches including both non-surgical surgical. Predisposing factors include female gender in 6th decade life. tendency neoplastic ...

Oral Verrucous Lesions (OVL) comprise of Hyperplasia (VH), Keratosis, Proliferative Leukoplakia (PVL) and Carcinoma Cavity (VC) known as Ackermann’s Tumour. These predominantly emerge slow proliferating, gray or white, warty, exophytic lesion with micro-nodular surface & commonly seen on the buccal, labial mucosa, gingiva, tongue palate. are associated consumption tobacco in smoke smokeless...

Verrucous papillary lesions of the oral cavity are diagnosti­ cally challenging as they include a spectrum of benign, potentially malignant, and frankly malignant lesions. Verru­ cous carcinoma (VC) is a distinct variety of epidermoid carci­ noma with pathognomonic clinical appearance, behavior and microscopic features. These slow­growing lesions are markedly exophytic and endophytic that enlar...