Abstract
The osseous choristoma is classified similarly to a tumor of soft tissue, containing normal bone structure in unconventional location with development predilection in the tongue. The objective of this study is to report a case of lingual osseous choristoma in a child. A female patient, 9 years old, was referred to stomatology service complaining of lesion in the tongue. In intraoral clinical examination was observed a nodular lesion, firm, pedunculated, pinkness, measuring approximately 0.3 cm, asymptomatic, in the posterior third of the tongue with evolution of 30 months. The diagnostic hypothesis was traumatic fibroma or choristoma. An excisional biopsy was performed and the histopathologic diagnosis was lingual osseous choristoma. The patient has been followed for 6 months without recurrence. The identification, removal and diagnosis of this lesion offered normal physiologic conditions for the patient's tongue.
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