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Case Reports
. 2013 Mar 12:2013:bcr2013008583.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-008583.

Profusely bleeding oral pyogenic granuloma in a teenage girl

Rajeev Kumar Singh  1 , Ambrish Kaushal, Rakesh Kumar, Ramesh Kumar Pandey
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Case Reports

Profusely bleeding oral pyogenic granuloma in a teenage girl

Rajeev Kumar Singh et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

Abstract

Pyogenic granuloma (PG) is a kind of inflammatory hyperplastic soft tissue lesion of the oral cavity. The lesion, however, is not related to infection and arise as a reactive growth in response to various stimuli. It has a very high vascularity because of the presence of numerous prominent capillaries. The lesion has a bleeding tendency, even after a minor traumatic episode, such as during mastication. Bleeding may be at times very severe and difficult to control. We present the case of a profusely bleeding young PG in a young teenage child.

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Intraoral view showing bleeding soft tissue lesion.
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Excised lesion.
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Microphotograph showing inflammatory infiltrates predominantly plasma cells, lymphocytes and neutrophils and foam cells (H&E ×10).
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Microphotograph showing numerous small and large blood vessels, endothelial proliferation and extravasated red blood cells (H&E ×10).
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