Two Cases of Pyogenic Granuloma in a Child and a Clinco-Statistical Study of Pyogenic Granuloma in Our Department

Abstract

Pyogenic granuloma is a non-neoplastic inflammatory hyperplasia of the skin and mucosa that is relatively common in the oral cavity, but rare in children. The exact pathogenesis of this condition remains obscure and a differential diagnosis is often complicated by rapid growth.
We describe a 2-year-old boy (Case 1) with an exophytic pedunculated small mass on the right margin of the tongue and a 12-year-old boy (Case 2) with a large exophytic mass on the mandible. Both lesions were surgically resected and histopathologically diagnosed as pyogenic granuloma.
A clinico-statistical study of this condition in our department is also presented.