Oral Health Case Reports

Nagamani Narayana

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• Case Report
  Oral Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor: Two Additional Cases and Literature Review
  Author(s): Nagamani NarayanaNagamani Narayana
  
  OIMT poses a diagnostic challenge as it is part of the vast spectrum of spindle cell neoplasms. It is a controversial tumor composed of a proliferation of myofibroblasts intermingled with an inflammatory cell infiltrate composed of lymphocytes, plasma cells, and eosinophils in focal areas of collagenous stroma. Before this nomenclature was proposed by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1994, this entity was defined by a variety of names such as: inflammatory pseudotumor, histiocytoma, plasma cell histiocytoma complex, plasma cell granuloma, fibrohistiocytoma, xanthomatous granuloma, myxoid hamartoma, xanthomatous pseudotumor, spindle cell pseudotumor, inflammatory fibrosarcoma, benign myofibroblastoma, and inflammatory myofibroblastic proliferation. WHO has classified OIMT as an intermediate soft-tissue myofibroblastic neoplasm according to its well reproducible histological morpholog.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2471-8726.1000118

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