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CASE REPORT
Lymphoma presenting as a toothache: a wolf in sheep's clothing
Summary
Although rare in the oral cavity, oral non-Hodgkin lymphoma frequently mimics odontogenic and other oral pathologies. The purpose of this report is to discuss the diagnostic difficulty in a case of a 75-year-old man with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presenting initially as a toothache.
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Contributors YH was involved in the diagnosis, patient management, literature search and writing the manuscript. GA and AA were involved in pathological interpretation. CS was involved in manuscript design and writing.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.