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- Oral cancer screenings are becoming more common, leading to challenges in diagnosing lesions that look like cancer.
- A case is discussed where an oral lesion resolved on its own after an incisional biopsy.
- The condition, identified as necrotizing sialometaplasia through histopathology, highlights the importance of biopsy in diagnosis, especially for general practitioners and otolaryngologists.
Article Abstract
With screening for oral cancer being increasingly performed by physicians, ulceroproliferative lesions of the oral cavity that resemble carcinoma may present a diagnostic challenge. We present one such case wherein the lesion resolved spontaneously after incisional biopsy. A clinical diagnosis of necrotizing sialometaplasia was confirmed by histopathology. General medical practitioners and otolaryngologists should consider this rare lesion in the work up of a suspicious oral ulcer. Decisions must be based on biopsy and clinicians should resist the urge to make diagnoses unsupported by biopsy or at least toluidine blue staining.
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