Contemporary Clinical Dentistry (Jan 2012)

Peripheral giant cell granuloma

  • Padam Narayan Tandon,
  • S K Gupta,
  • Durga Shanker Gupta,
  • Sunit Kumar Jurel,
  • Abhishek Saraswat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0976-237X.95121
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 5
pp. 118 – 121

Abstract

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Peripheral giant cell granuloma or the so-called "giant cell epulis" is the most common oral giant cell lesion. It normally presents as a soft tissue purplish-red nodule consisting of multinucleated giant cells in a background of mononuclear stromal cells and extravasated red blood cells. This lesion probably does not represent a true neoplasm, but rather may be reactive in nature, believed to be stimulated by local irritation or trauma, but the cause is not certainly known. This article reports a case of peripheral giant cell granuloma arising at the maxillary anterior region in a 22-year-old female patient. The lesion was completely excised to the periosteum level and there is no residual or recurrent swelling or bony defect apparent in the area of biopsy after a follow-up period of 6 months.

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