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A non-neoplastic inflammatory lesion, usually of the jaw or gingiva, containing large, multinucleated cells. It includes reparative giant cell granuloma. Peripheral giant cell granuloma refers to the gingiva (giant cell epulis); central refers to the jaw.
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- Granuloma, Giant Cell
- Giant Cell Granulomas
- Granulomas, Giant Cell
- Epulides, Giant Cell
- Epulis, Giant Cell
- Granuloma, Giant Cell Reparative
- Peripheral Giant Cell Granuloma
- Giant Cell Epulides
- Giant Cell Epulis
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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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do not confuse with GIANT CELL TUMORS, benign or malignant neopl; coord IM with organ/dis (IM), not organ/neopl; peripheral or epulis involves gingiva, central refers to jaw
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History Note
74; was GRANULOMA, REPARATIVE GIANT CELL 1965-73
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Giant Cell Granuloma. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006101. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006101
- Giant Cell Granuloma. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18554924