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CASE REPORT
Lymphoma presenting as a toothache: a wolf in sheep's clothing
  1. Yazan Hassona1,
  2. Ghadeer Almuhaisen2,
  3. Ahmed Almansour2,
  4. Crispian Scully3
  1. 1University of Jordan, School of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Pathology, Amman, Jordan
  2. 2Department of Pathology, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
  3. 3University College London, London, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Yazan Hassona, yazan_hasoneh{at}yahoo.com

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.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-218686

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    Footnotes

    • 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.