Pyogenic granuloma (also known as a "Granuloma gravidarum," and "Pregnancy tumor") is a primarily oral disease which appears in the mouth as an overgrowth of tissue to due irritation, physical trauma or hormonal factors. It is often found to involve the skin and nasal septum, and has also been found far from the head such as in the thigh.
Pyogenic granuloma was first originally described in 1897 by two French surgeons, Poncet and Dor, who named t...
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Pyogenic granuloma (also known as a "Granuloma gravidarum," and "Pregnancy tumor") is a primarily oral disease which appears in the mouth as an overgrowth of tissue to due irritation, physical trauma or hormonal factors. It is often found to involve the skin and nasal septum, and has also been found far from the head such as in the thigh.
Pyogenic granuloma was first originally described in 1897 by two French surgeons, Poncet and Dor, who named this lesion otyomycosis hominis. The name for pyogenic granuloma is misleading because it is not a true granuloma. In actuality, it is a capillary hemangioma of lobular subtype which is the reason they are often quite prone to bleeding.
The appearance of pyogenic granuloma is usually a color ranging from red/pink to purple, and can be smooth or lobulated. Younger lesions are more likely to be red because of the high number of blood vessels. Older lesions begin to change into a pink color. Size ranges from a few millimeters to centimeters. It...
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