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Research Article| Volume 27, ISSUE 2, P247-251, February 1969

Soft-tissue myxoma of the oral cavity

Report of a case
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4220(69)90179-0
Soft-tissue myxoma of the oral cavity
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      Abstract

      An extremely rare lesion—an intraoral soft-tissue myxoma of the lip—has been described. Myxomas are benign neoplasms of mesenchyme-like tissue, and they never metastasize. Surgical removal is the treatment of choice. If excision has been incomplete, recurrence is not uncommon.
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      Footnotes

      ☆Presented at the Clinical-Pathological Conference of the New York Institute of Clinical Oral Pathology, Nov. 8, 1965.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4220(69)90179-0

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      © 1969 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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