Polyacrylamide soft tissue filler nodule mimicking a mucoepidermoid carcinoma

Authors
Publication date 2008
Journal International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Volume | Issue number 37 | 6
Pages (from-to) 578-580
Organisations
  • Faculty of Dentistry (ACTA)
Abstract A 39-year-old woman is described in whom histopathologic examination of a nodule of the cheek mucosa was suggestive of a mucoepidermoid carcinoma. Only after the availability of a wider surgical specimen was a distinct foreign body reaction to polyacrylamide soft tissue filler observed. On inquiry, the patient admitted to having this filler injected into her nasolabial folds 3 years previously
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijom.2008.01.008
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