Pyogenic granuloma of unusual location

Abstract

Pyogenic granuloma is a lesion benign of the skin and oral mucosa that manifests itself most frequently related to various etiologies such as. Reactive lesions that arise in response to various irritation stimuli, oral mucosal traumas and hormonal changes. Its clinical manifestation shows a hyperplastic lesion of variable types, highly vascularized, with a pedunculated or sessile base with slow growth. It does not have a tendency to sex and age usually appears with greater predominance in the lips, oral mucosa and in the toothless alveolar ridge with few reports of clinical cases located on the lingual aspect of the alveolar ridge of the left jaw.
The aim of the article is to present a clinical case report with the purpose of diagnosing and describing the hyperplastic granular lesion in the region of the lingual surface of the alveolar ridge of the left lower jaw in a 55 year old female patient. . the excisional biopsy was performed and the histopathological diagnosis was pyogenic granuloma, the healing process was developed within its normality with strict control reaching adequate healing with slight hypersensitivity, showing no signs of recurrence at 6 months of control.