Meeting abstract

Epulis - Clinical Appearance and Histopathological Analysis

Elvis Anđelko Begović
Darko Macan
Iskra Bolfek

Abstract

Epulis is a benign lesion on the gingiva whose external appearance resembles a tumour, while histologically it looks more like a transitional form of an inflammatory process. It occurs in several histological forms: Epulis gigantocellularis, Epulis granulomatosa, Epulis fibromatosa, congenital epulis, epulis gravidarum, Epulis haemangiomatosa, Epulis fissuratum, papilarna hyperplasia, piogeno granulom and irritative fibroma.
Epulis occurs twice as often in women than in men, and slightly more frequently in the upper jaw, and conformity of clinical and histopathological diagnoses is 48%.
Clinical and histopathological diagnoses were analysed during a period of six years in order to obtain insight into the frequency of epulis as the described term among the clinical diagnoses. Such a collection of different processes under one name, which emerged on the basis of localisation, without histopathological confirmation, does not offer the correct information on the percentage in which it occurs in clinical practice. Histopathological analysis is used as the most important method for differentiating epulis from other similar conditions on the gingiva. The importance of epulis is that it is a relatively frequent formation, under whose similar clinical appearance can be different histopathological material, and verification of this material on the part of the pathologist, provides the surgeon with justification for performing the operation.
From the foregoing it follows that the introduction of precise terms for such pathological lesions and their correct histopathological analysis would greatly contribute to correct diagnosis, and consequently the application of appropriate therapy.

Keywords

Hrčak ID:

2329

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/2329

Publication date:

15.12.2004.

Article data in other languages: croatian

Visits: 5.997 *