Soft masses occurring simultaneously in the upper and lower lips

Abstract

A 27-year-old man was was referred to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Nagasaki University Hospital with a chief complaint of unpleasantness associated with swelling of 1.5 years' duration of the right upper and left lower lips. He was healthy and had no history of immunodeficiency or trauma involving the maxillofacial region.Clinical examination revealed a 6 × 3 × 3 mm soft swelling in the right upper lip and an 8 × 5 × 3 mm soft swelling in the left lower lip, without cervical lymphadenopathy (Figure 1).