舌のいわゆるfibrous lesionの検討

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The so called “fibrous lesion” is one of the diseases sometimes seen in tumors of the tongue. This injury is the most famous cause of fibrous lesions, and is formed by a variable inflammatory response.
We report here the clinicopathologic investigation of fibrous lesions in the tongue.
Seventy-eight cases of fibrous lesions were investigated, including 30 males and 48 females. The fibrous lesion was located most frequently at the apex of the tongue, followed in order by both sides of the tongue, the surface, and the back side.
The period between the patient's first visit to our clinic and the onset of his/her complains was not related to the location. The lesion were relatively larger in those cases with lesions on both sides and on the back side.
The pathological feature included fewer capillaries, fibrous cells and inflammatory small round cells in the apex and on both sides than on the surface and back side our clinical impression is that there are pathological differences in this lesion.