Diseases

Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia

Hyperplasia of the mucous membrane of the lips, tongue, and less commonly, the buccal mucosa, floor of the mouth, and palate, presenting soft, painless, round to oval sessile papules about 1 to 4 mm in diameter. The condition usually occurs in children and young adults and has familial predilection, lasting for several months, sometimes years, before running its course. A viral etiology is suspected, the isolated organism being usually the human papillomavirus. (Jablonski, Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry; Belshe, Textbook of Human Virology, 2d ed, p954)

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Hyperplasia of the mucous membrane of the lips, tongue, and less commonly, the buccal mucosa, floor of the mouth, and palate, presenting soft, painless, round to oval sessile papules about 1 to 4 mm in diameter. The condition usually occurs in children and young adults and has familial predilection, lasting for several months, sometimes years, before running its course. A viral etiology is suspected, the isolated organism being usually the human papillomavirus. (Jablonski, Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry; Belshe, Textbook of Human Virology, 2d ed, p954)

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  • Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia, Oral
  • Heck Disease
  • Heck's Disease
  • Hyperplasia, Focal Epithelial
  • Disease, Heck
  • Disease, Heck's
  • Epithelial Hyperplasia, Focal
  • Epithelial Hyperplasias, Focal
  • Focal Epithelial Hyperplasias
  • Hecks Disease
  • Hyperplasias, Focal Epithelial

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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  • Hyperplasia (1966-1993)
  • Mouth Diseases (1966-1993)

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  1. C07.465w.342w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017573. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017573
  2. Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heck%27s_disease
  3. Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5696358