Volume 24, Issue 101, January - February, 2020

Lingual Lipoma: Rare case reported in Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abrar Abdrabuh^1♦, Omar Halabi², Irfan Shaikh²

¹Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Al Farabi Medical Collage, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
²Department of Maxillofacial Surgeon, King Abdulaziz hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Al Farabi Medical College, 23643 Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email: Abrar_abdrabuh@hotmail.com

ABSTRACT

Lipoma is common, asymptomatic, and slow- growing benign tumor of mature fat tissues, but it is very rare occurrence in the oral cavity. Here, there is a case report of a 58-years old male patient presented to the maxillofacial surgical clinic with lingual lipoma. A clinical, histological description, and treatment are reported of the lingual lipoma.

Keywords: tongue lipoma, benign tumor, Saudi Arabia

Medical Science, 2020, 24(101), 90-93

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