AAPD Handbook 5th Edition Chapter 3 Oral Pathology
and Associated Syndromes UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
What are the three most common soft tissue lesions in 1) Natal oral cysts
children? 2) Sucking pads and calluses
3) Pseudomembranous candidiasis
1) What are the locations and tissues of Epstein pearl, 1) Epstein pearls on palatal midline, epitherlial inclusion cyst
Bohn nodule, and dental lamina cyst? Bohn nodules on junction of hard and soft palate, remnants of minor salivary
2) Whats the occurrence rate for Epstein pearls, Bohn glands
nodules, and dental lamina cyst? Dental lamina cysts on alveolar mucosa and remnants of dental lamina
3) What is the usual course of progression for Epstein 2) 55-85% for Epstein pearls/Bohn nodules and 50% dental lamina cyst
pearls, Bohn nodules, and dental lamina cyst? 3) Single or multiple papules that rupture and heal
4) What are mimics of Epstein pearls, Bohn nodules, and 4) Superficial abscess, thrush, erupting tooth, eruption cyst, lymphoepithelial cyst
dental lamina cysts?
For sucking pads and calluses: 1) Sucking trauma
1) What are they an anatomical variant from? 2) Black infants
2) What race is this most prominent in? 3) Labial and vermilion border
3) What site in the mouth does this occur? 4) Swollen, translucent to opaque white to pigmented scaly patches; may peel
4) What is the appearance of this lesion? and recur; nontender
5) What is the treatment for this? 5) Resolves on own, correct feeding position, lip emollient (lanolin)
6) What conditions does this mimic? 6) Chapped lips, breastfeeding keratosis
7) What are the concurrent conditions for this? 7) Leukoedema, labial vesicles, bullae, erythema of nasolabial folds/lips
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For pseudomembranous candidiasis: 1) True
1) T/F, most common oral infection of infants 2) Candida albicans
2) What organism is this usually caused by? 3) Maternal vaginal/breast infection, prematurity, immunosuppresion, and
3) What are four contributing factors for this? antibiotics
4) What is the usual appearance of this? 4) Widespread nonadherent papules and plaques with the appearance of curdled
5) What are concurrent conditions for this? milk
6) What is the treatment for this? 5) Diaper rash, perioral rash
7) What conditions does this mimic? 6) Nystatin, fluconazole
7) Coated tongue, materia alba, oral cysts of newborn, mucosal sloughing,
breastfeeding keratosis
What are 7 uncommon soft tissue infant diseases? 1) Riga-Fede disease
2) Tongue trauma in infants
3) Vascular lesions
4) Vascular malformations
5) Hemangioma
6) Lymphatic malformation
7) Neonatal alveolar lymphangioma
For Riga-Fede: 1) Chronic trauma from primary incisors
1) What is the cause of Riga-Fede and what does it 2) Represents traumatic granuloma of an ulcerated lesion or mass on anterior
represent? ventral tongue
2) Where does this occur at? 3) Identify cause, modify feeding position/bottle used, smooth incisal edges,
3) How do we treat this? apply chlorhexidine to prevent secondary infection
4) What does this mimic? 4) Neuropathologic chewing, facitial injury, trauma from child abuse
5) What can Riga-Fede be associated with? 5) Partial ankyloglossia
For tongue trauma in infants: 1) Neuropathologic chewing, seizure disorder, incorrect use of
1) What are three potential causes of it? pacifier/bottle/teething rings
Conditions with neuropathologic of familial
dysautonomia are Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, Gaucher
disease, cerebral palsy, Tourette syndrome, Rhett
syndrome, Autism, Cornelia de Lange syndrome,
traumatic brain injury
1) What are three common vascular tumors? 1) Infantile hemangioma, congenital hemangioma, pyogenic granuloma
2) What are five common vascular malformations? 2) Capillary malformation, venous malformation, lymphatic malformation,
arteriovenous malformation, combined malformations
For vascular malformations: 1) Present birth and is persistent, tends to grow with child
1) When do they occur and what is the course of the 2) Associated with skeletal changes and are intrabony
malformation? 3) Red, purple, blue macule or nodule or diffuse swelling
2) What may these malformations be associated with? 4) Hemangioma, varix, eruption cyst/hematoma, blue nevus, ecchymosis
3) What is the appearance of these malformations?
4) What do these malformations mimic?
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For vascular malformations: 1) Head and neck region, can occur on facial skin
1) Where do these occur? 2) Venous malformation
2) What does a low-flow malformation tell you? 3) Arteriovenous malformation, detected by bleeding, pain, warmth, palpable
3) What does a high flow malformation tell you and how thrill, or bruit
can you detect this? 4) Sturge-Weber syndrome: vascular lesion of face/brain, port-wine nevus with
4) Describe how Sturge-Weber syndrome is associated risk for seizure
with malformations? 5) Surgery, embolization, laser treatment for port wine nevus
5) What is the treatment for malformations?
For hemangioma: 1) True
1) T/F, multiple types of hemangiomas that could be 2) C) 5%
infanitle or congenital 3) 60% occur in head and neck region
2) What percent of infants are affected by this? 4) Lip and tongue are common oral sites
A) 1%
B) 3%
C) 5%
D) 7%
3) Where do the majorities of these occur?
4) What is the most common oral sites for these?
For hemangioma: 1) Salivary glands tissue, usually parotid
1) What tissues may this involve that is not vascular? 2) Normal or reddish-blue skin coloration with swelling that is rubbery and may
2) How may these appear? not blanch when touched
3) T/F, they do not regress with age 3) False, many regress
4) How do we treat these lesions? 4) Observe, propranolol, steroids (other)
5) What do these lesions mimic? 5) Vascular malformation, pyogenic granuloma, hematoma, mucocele
For the lymphatic malformation: 1) Hamartomatous growth of lymphatic vessels
1) What is the cause/etiology of this lesion? 2) 50-75% for head and neck locations
2) Where do these mainly occur on the body (think torso 3) Develop by age 2
type descriptions)? 4) False, they do not
3) When do 90% of these lesions develop by? 5) Venous malformation, squamous papilloma, mucocele
4) T/F, these lesions regress with age
5) What do these malformations mimic?
For the lymphatic malformation: 1) Superficial lesions with pink, red, or purple with pebbly vesicular surface
1) What do these lesions appear as? 2) A fluid-filled sac that results from a blockage in the lymphatic system, causes
2) What is a cystic hygroma, and what can it cause? diffuse swelling of cervical region of neck and parotid
3) What is the significance of large lesions? 3) Can compromise airway
4) What is the treatment for these lesions? 4) Surgery, sclerotherapy, drugs
For neonatal alveolar lymphangioma: 1) At birth
1) When do these appear? 2) African American males
2) What racial population does this usually occur in? 3) Translucent pink to blue fluctuant swelling that appears on the mandibular
3) What is the appearance and location of these usually? alveolar ridge more often than the maxilla
4) What is the treatment for this? 4) None, resolves spontaneously
5) What do these mimic? 5) Gingival cyst of newborn, eruption cyst
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and Associated Syndromes UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
What are the three most common soft tissue lesions in 1) Natal oral cysts
children? 2) Sucking pads and calluses
3) Pseudomembranous candidiasis
1) What are the locations and tissues of Epstein pearl, 1) Epstein pearls on palatal midline, epitherlial inclusion cyst
Bohn nodule, and dental lamina cyst? Bohn nodules on junction of hard and soft palate, remnants of minor salivary
2) Whats the occurrence rate for Epstein pearls, Bohn glands
nodules, and dental lamina cyst? Dental lamina cysts on alveolar mucosa and remnants of dental lamina
3) What is the usual course of progression for Epstein 2) 55-85% for Epstein pearls/Bohn nodules and 50% dental lamina cyst
pearls, Bohn nodules, and dental lamina cyst? 3) Single or multiple papules that rupture and heal
4) What are mimics of Epstein pearls, Bohn nodules, and 4) Superficial abscess, thrush, erupting tooth, eruption cyst, lymphoepithelial cyst
dental lamina cysts?
For sucking pads and calluses: 1) Sucking trauma
1) What are they an anatomical variant from? 2) Black infants
2) What race is this most prominent in? 3) Labial and vermilion border
3) What site in the mouth does this occur? 4) Swollen, translucent to opaque white to pigmented scaly patches; may peel
4) What is the appearance of this lesion? and recur; nontender
5) What is the treatment for this? 5) Resolves on own, correct feeding position, lip emollient (lanolin)
6) What conditions does this mimic? 6) Chapped lips, breastfeeding keratosis
7) What are the concurrent conditions for this? 7) Leukoedema, labial vesicles, bullae, erythema of nasolabial folds/lips
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For pseudomembranous candidiasis: 1) True
1) T/F, most common oral infection of infants 2) Candida albicans
2) What organism is this usually caused by? 3) Maternal vaginal/breast infection, prematurity, immunosuppresion, and
3) What are four contributing factors for this? antibiotics
4) What is the usual appearance of this? 4) Widespread nonadherent papules and plaques with the appearance of curdled
5) What are concurrent conditions for this? milk
6) What is the treatment for this? 5) Diaper rash, perioral rash
7) What conditions does this mimic? 6) Nystatin, fluconazole
7) Coated tongue, materia alba, oral cysts of newborn, mucosal sloughing,
breastfeeding keratosis
What are 7 uncommon soft tissue infant diseases? 1) Riga-Fede disease
2) Tongue trauma in infants
3) Vascular lesions
4) Vascular malformations
5) Hemangioma
6) Lymphatic malformation
7) Neonatal alveolar lymphangioma
For Riga-Fede: 1) Chronic trauma from primary incisors
1) What is the cause of Riga-Fede and what does it 2) Represents traumatic granuloma of an ulcerated lesion or mass on anterior
represent? ventral tongue
2) Where does this occur at? 3) Identify cause, modify feeding position/bottle used, smooth incisal edges,
3) How do we treat this? apply chlorhexidine to prevent secondary infection
4) What does this mimic? 4) Neuropathologic chewing, facitial injury, trauma from child abuse
5) What can Riga-Fede be associated with? 5) Partial ankyloglossia
For tongue trauma in infants: 1) Neuropathologic chewing, seizure disorder, incorrect use of
1) What are three potential causes of it? pacifier/bottle/teething rings
Conditions with neuropathologic of familial
dysautonomia are Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, Gaucher
disease, cerebral palsy, Tourette syndrome, Rhett
syndrome, Autism, Cornelia de Lange syndrome,
traumatic brain injury
1) What are three common vascular tumors? 1) Infantile hemangioma, congenital hemangioma, pyogenic granuloma
2) What are five common vascular malformations? 2) Capillary malformation, venous malformation, lymphatic malformation,
arteriovenous malformation, combined malformations
For vascular malformations: 1) Present birth and is persistent, tends to grow with child
1) When do they occur and what is the course of the 2) Associated with skeletal changes and are intrabony
malformation? 3) Red, purple, blue macule or nodule or diffuse swelling
2) What may these malformations be associated with? 4) Hemangioma, varix, eruption cyst/hematoma, blue nevus, ecchymosis
3) What is the appearance of these malformations?
4) What do these malformations mimic?
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For vascular malformations: 1) Head and neck region, can occur on facial skin
1) Where do these occur? 2) Venous malformation
2) What does a low-flow malformation tell you? 3) Arteriovenous malformation, detected by bleeding, pain, warmth, palpable
3) What does a high flow malformation tell you and how thrill, or bruit
can you detect this? 4) Sturge-Weber syndrome: vascular lesion of face/brain, port-wine nevus with
4) Describe how Sturge-Weber syndrome is associated risk for seizure
with malformations? 5) Surgery, embolization, laser treatment for port wine nevus
5) What is the treatment for malformations?
For hemangioma: 1) True
1) T/F, multiple types of hemangiomas that could be 2) C) 5%
infanitle or congenital 3) 60% occur in head and neck region
2) What percent of infants are affected by this? 4) Lip and tongue are common oral sites
A) 1%
B) 3%
C) 5%
D) 7%
3) Where do the majorities of these occur?
4) What is the most common oral sites for these?
For hemangioma: 1) Salivary glands tissue, usually parotid
1) What tissues may this involve that is not vascular? 2) Normal or reddish-blue skin coloration with swelling that is rubbery and may
2) How may these appear? not blanch when touched
3) T/F, they do not regress with age 3) False, many regress
4) How do we treat these lesions? 4) Observe, propranolol, steroids (other)
5) What do these lesions mimic? 5) Vascular malformation, pyogenic granuloma, hematoma, mucocele
For the lymphatic malformation: 1) Hamartomatous growth of lymphatic vessels
1) What is the cause/etiology of this lesion? 2) 50-75% for head and neck locations
2) Where do these mainly occur on the body (think torso 3) Develop by age 2
type descriptions)? 4) False, they do not
3) When do 90% of these lesions develop by? 5) Venous malformation, squamous papilloma, mucocele
4) T/F, these lesions regress with age
5) What do these malformations mimic?
For the lymphatic malformation: 1) Superficial lesions with pink, red, or purple with pebbly vesicular surface
1) What do these lesions appear as? 2) A fluid-filled sac that results from a blockage in the lymphatic system, causes
2) What is a cystic hygroma, and what can it cause? diffuse swelling of cervical region of neck and parotid
3) What is the significance of large lesions? 3) Can compromise airway
4) What is the treatment for these lesions? 4) Surgery, sclerotherapy, drugs
For neonatal alveolar lymphangioma: 1) At birth
1) When do these appear? 2) African American males
2) What racial population does this usually occur in? 3) Translucent pink to blue fluctuant swelling that appears on the mandibular
3) What is the appearance and location of these usually? alveolar ridge more often than the maxilla
4) What is the treatment for this? 4) None, resolves spontaneously
5) What do these mimic? 5) Gingival cyst of newborn, eruption cyst
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