Osseous oral hyaline ring granuloma mimicking a mandible tumor in a child with congenital agenesis of the corpus callosum

• Rodrigo Neves-Silva ^[1] ; Camilla-Borges Ferreira-Gomes ^[1] ; Natalia Palmier ^[1] ; Marcelo Brum-Corrêa ^[2] ; Oslei Paes-Almeida ^[1] ; Marcio Ajudarte-Lopes ^[1] ; Pablo Agustin-Vargas ^[1] ; Alan-Roger Santos-Silva ^[1]
  1. [1] DDS, PhD, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology and Oral Semiology Sections, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
  2. [2] MD, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Oncology Center, Piracicaba
• Localización: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry, ISSN-e 1989-5488, Vol. 9, Nº. 2 (Febrero), 2017, págs. 329-332
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Hyaline ring granuloma (HRG) of the oral cavity is an uncommon disorder considered to be a foreign-body reaction resulting from implantation of food vegetable particles. Microscopically, it is characterized by the presence of structures of hyaline rings in an inflamed fibrous tissue background, which contains multinucleated giant cells.

    We present the case of a 4-year-old boy diagnosed with a mandible osseous HRG, which showed clinical and tomographic aspects suggestive of an aggressive bone tumor.

    The patient underwent surgical exploration and histopathologic analysis showed fragments composed predominantly of widespread dense connective tissue with an acute and chronic inflammatory infiltrate containing multinucleated giant cells and scattered areas of eosinophilic material associated with hyaline rings, strongly suggestive of vegetable particles. The eosinophilic material was positive for periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) and resistant to diastase digestion. These features led to diagnosis of osseous HRG. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis was performed for illustrative purposes and the multiple structures resembling vegetable particles were characterized in more detail.

    Although rare, this case highlights the importance of the clinician’s awareness regarding the existence of an osseous counterpart of HRG.