Concept information
Preferred term
Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Disease, Heck
- Disease, Heck's
- Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia, Oral
- Heck Disease
- Heck's Disease
- Hecks Disease
- Hyperplasia, Focal Epithelial
Scope note
- Hyperplasia of the mucous membrane of the lips, tongue, and less commonly, the buccal mucosa, floor of the mouth, and palate, presenting soft, painless, round to oval sessile papules about 1 to 4 mm in diameter. The condition usually occurs in children and young adults and has familial predilection, lasting for several months, sometimes years, before running its course. A viral etiology is suspected, the isolated organism being usually the human papillomavirus. (Jablonski, Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry; Belshe, Textbook of Human Virology, 2d ed, p954)
History note
- 94
In other languages
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Finnish
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hypertrofia focalis epithelialis
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017573
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