1996 Volume 42 Issue 8 Pages 858-860
Three cases of angiomyoma arising in the oral cavity are reported. The first case was in a 24-year-old man with a hemangiomatous swelling of the hard palate. The second case was in a 55-year-old woman with an elastic hard mass in the buccal mucosa. The third case was in a 64-year-old man with a slightly reddish swelling of the hard palate. The clinical diagnosis in the first case was hemangioma, whereas benign tumor was the clinical diagnosis in the two other cases. The tumors were completely excised under local anesthesia. Histological examination revealed well-demarcated nodular tumors consisting of smooth muscle-like tumor cells, which proliferated perivascularly in all cases. The histopathological diagnoses were angiomyoma.
