Lobulated capillary hemangioma: A series of 3 cases with review of literature

• Main Authors: Harshal Varpe, Amit Mhapuskar, Santosh Jadhav, Darshan Hiremutt, Shubhangi Gaikwad, Ajinkya Deshmukh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
• Series: Journal of Dental and Allied Sciences
• Subjects: Benign vascular lesions of oral mucosa; gingival overgrowth; lobulated capillary hemangioma; pyogenic granuloma; swelling on gingiva
• Online Access: http://www.jdas.in/article.asp?issn=2277-4696;year=2018;volume=7;issue=1;spage=42;epage=46;aulast=Varpe

Enlargements of soft tissue of the oral mucosa often present a diagnostic challenge because a diverse group of pathologic processes can produce such lesions. Lobulated capillary hemangioma of oral mucosa is a well-known benign lesion occurring most commonly on gingiva. Diagnosis of such lesions becomes difficult many times as an enlargement may represent a variation of normal anatomic structures, inflammation, cysts, developmental anomalies, and neoplasm. Some of these lesions are reactive in nature. This article focuses on a series of three similar cases on gingiva, clinically diagnosed as “pyogenic granuloma” and histopathologically as “lobulated capillary hemangioma.”