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Table of contents
General:anatomy books grossing & features to report histology-oral cavity histology-oropharynx (pending) lingual tonsil staging features staging-mucosal melanoma staging-oral cavity staging-oropharynx & hypopharynx WHO classification-oral cavity & oropharynx
Developmental anomalies:caliber persistent artery (pending) dermoid / epidermoid cyst duplication cyst Fordyce granules hairy tongue leukoedema (pending) lingual thyroid lymphoid hyperplasia / oral lymphoepithelial cyst nasolabial cyst (pending) Stafne defect (pending)
Infectious:infections-general oral hairy leukoplakia tonsillitis (pending)
Inflammatory / immune mediated (noninfectious):aphthous ulcers chronic ulcerative stomatitis (pending) geographic tongue erythema multiforme granulomatous inflammation inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia (pending) inflammatory papillary hyperplasia lichen planus median rhomboid glossitis Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome paraneoplastic pemphigus (pending) pemphigoid pemphigus vulgaris plasma cell gingivitis (pending) pyostomatitis vegetans (pending) transient lingual papillitis (pending) traumatic ulceration with stroma eosinophilia (TUGSE)
Benign epithelial tumors & processes:frictional keratosis (pending) hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis (pending) multifocal epithelial hyperplasia nicotine stomatitis (pending) pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia squamous papilloma verruca vulgaris verruciform xanthoma white sponge nevus (pending)
Other nonneoplastic:amalgam tattoo ephelis melanotic pigmentation osseous choristoma
Potentially malignant & dysplasia:actinic cheilitis (pending) dysplasia leukoplakia oral submucosal fibrosis smokeless tobacco keratosis verrucous hyperplasia / proliferative verrucous leukoplakia
Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma:SCC-general basaloid spindle cell verrucous
Oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma:HPV positive HPV negative oropharynx tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma
Salivary gland tumors & processes:acinic cell carcinoma adenomatoid hyperplasia of minor glands canalicular adenoma (pending) gingival hyperplasia mucocele mucoepidermoid carcinoma polymorphous adenocarcinoma salivary duct cyst
Soft tissue tumors & proliferations:choristoma congenital epulis of newborn ectomesenchymal chondromyxoid tumor giant cell fibroma granular cell tumor hemangioma irritation fibroma melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (pending) oral focal mucinosis (pending) oral mucosal neuroma (pending) parulis peripheral giant cell granuloma peripheral ossifying fibroma pyogenic granuloma subgemmal neurogenous plaque varix / varicosities / varices
Other tumors:oral mucosal melanoma
Disorders in other chapters: adenoid cystic carcinoma Kaposi sarcoma myofibroblastic sarcoma necrotizing sialometaplasia pleomorphic adenoma rhabdomyoma schwannoma

Oral cavity & oropharynx stains: calponin CD45 CD99 CDX2 CK5/6 CK7 CK20 desmin EBER1 GATA3 mucicarmine p16 p40 p63 S100 SMA SOX10 synaptophysin

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Index (Alphabetical table of contents)
A-E:acinic cell carcinoma actinic cheilitis (pending) adenomatoid hyperplasia of minor glands amalgam tattoo anatomy aphthous ulcers basaloid caliber persistent artery (pending) canalicular adenoma (pending) choristoma chronic ulcerative stomatitis (pending) congenital epulis of newborn dermoid / epidermoid cyst duplication cyst dysplasia ectomesenchymal chondromyxoid tumor ephelis erythema multiforme
F-N:Fordyce granules frictional keratosis (pending) geographic tongue giant cell fibroma gingival hyperplasia granular cell tumor granulomatous inflammation grossing & features to report hairy tongue hemangioma hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis (pending) histology-oral cavity histology-oropharynx (pending) HPV negative HPV positive infections-general inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia (pending) inflammatory papillary hyperplasia irritation fibroma leukoedema (pending) leukoplakia lichen planus lingual thyroid lingual tonsil lymphoid hyperplasia / oral lymphoepithelial cyst median rhomboid glossitis melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (pending) melanotic pigmentation Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome mucocele mucoepidermoid carcinoma multifocal epithelial hyperplasia nasolabial cyst (pending) nicotine stomatitis (pending)
O-Z:oral focal mucinosis (pending) oral hairy leukoplakia oral mucosal melanoma oral mucosal neuroma (pending) oral submucosal fibrosis oropharynx osseous choristoma paraneoplastic pemphigus (pending) parulis pemphigoid pemphigus vulgaris peripheral giant cell granuloma peripheral ossifying fibroma plasma cell gingivitis (pending) polymorphous adenocarcinoma pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia pyogenic granuloma pyostomatitis vegetans (pending) salivary duct cyst SCC-general smokeless tobacco keratosis spindle cell squamous papilloma Stafne defect (pending) staging features staging-mucosal melanoma staging-oral cavity staging-oropharynx & hypopharynx subgemmal neurogenous plaque tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma tonsillitis (pending) transient lingual papillitis (pending) traumatic ulceration with stroma eosinophilia (TUGSE) varix / varicosities / varices verruca vulgaris verruciform xanthoma verrucous verrucous hyperplasia / proliferative verrucous leukoplakia white sponge nevus (pending) WHO classification-oral cavity & oropharynx
Oral cavity & oropharynx books

Franchi: 2020

Gnepp: 2021

IARC: 2017

Neville: 2015

Slootweg: 2016

Stelow: 2020

Thompson: 2018

Wenig: 2017

Wenig: 2015

Woo: 2016



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