Vol.96 No.1 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 96 No. 1 January 2003
A Case of Huge Epulis Osteoplastica
Kenichiro Nomura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Isamu Kunibe,
Toshihiro Nagato, Kan Kishibe, Akihiro Katada,
Masanobu Imada, Satoshi Nonaka and Yasuaki Harabuchi
(Asahikawa Medical College)
A case of a huge epulis arising in the gingiva of a mandible is reported. The patient was a 59-year-old man whose oral cavity was filled with a huge tumor. His condition was complicated with dysphagia and dyspnea, so we needed to perform tracheotomy. The tumor was so large and growing so rapidly that we suspected at first that it was a malignant tumor. But histopathologically it was diagnosed as epulis osteoplastica.
Key words : epulis osteoplastica, huge epulis, tracheotomy