Menu

rss
BMJ Case Reports 2011; doi:10.1136/bcr.08.2010.3225
  • Images in...

Rhabdomyomatous mesenchymal hamartoma of the tongue

  1. P R Morgan2
  1. 1Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
  2. 2Department of Oral Pathology, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to M Vaidyanathan, minavaidyanathan{at}hotmail.co.uk

Description

Presenting problem

A healthy 14-month-old South American girl presented with a soft tissue swelling on the left lateral border of her tongue, which had been present at birth and had gradually increased in size. The lesion was white in colour, 1.5 cm in size, well circumscribed and mobile (figure 1).

Figure 1

Clinical photo showing lesion …

[Full text of this article]

This Article

  1. Extract
  2. Full text
  3. PDF

Responses

  1. Submit a response
  2. No responses published

Social bookmarking

Top rated cases

Top rated cases

Register for free content

The full text of all Editor's Choice articles and summaries of every article are free without registration

The full text of Images in ... articles are free to registered users

Only fellows can access the full text of case reports (apart from Editor's Choice) - become a fellow today, or encourage your institution to, so that together we can grow and develop this resource

 

Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the case reports as they are published, and let us know what you think by commenting on the Editor's blog