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Mouth Diseases |
Question regarding mouth sore05/05/2008 02:15PM |
My son went to a dentist and they found a spot under his tongue. They did a biopsy and told him it could be cancer or lukemia. How would they know that?
I am assuming that it was the dentist (or oral surgeon) who told him that the lesion under his tongue could be "cancer or leukemia". This would be a clinical impression (guess) only, and often there will be several conditions, some benign and some malignant, that have a similar clinical appearance. This is why biopsies are done. A final diagnosis, which should be quite specific, will come from the pathology laboratory to which the tissue sample was submitted.
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Carl M. Allen, DDS, MSD Professor & Director, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Pathology Dental Faculty Practice Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology College of Dentistry The Ohio State University |
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