Mandale Mandakini Subhash, Bhavthankar Jyoti Dilip, Humbe Jayanti Govind, Kaorey Nivedita Nishant
Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Government Dental College and Hospital, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
Contemp Clin Dent. 2018 Sep;9(Suppl 2):S365-S368. doi: 10.4103/ccd.ccd_282_18.
Clinicians come across cases of palatal swellings that present with ambiguous features. They may vary in their etiology from numerous infectious and noninfectious causes to a wide array of neoplasms. Accurate diagnosis of such lesions is vital for their prompt and precise management. Rhinoscleroma (RS), as its name suggests, is a persistent, specific, granulomatous disease that results in sclerosis of the affected organ - most frequently the nose. Although its occurrence in the adjacent sites has been reported, the clinical findings did not offer much deviation from the expected. Reported here is a case of RS involving the palate which not only detoured from its usual site and course of spread but also gave off a confusing façade in terms of its clinical presentation.
临床医生会遇到一些腭部肿胀的病例，其特征不明确。病因可能多种多样，从众多感染性和非感染性原因到各种各样的肿瘤。准确诊断此类病变对于及时、精确的治疗至关重要。鼻硬结病（RS），顾名思义，是一种持续性、特异性的肉芽肿性疾病，可导致受影响器官（最常见的是鼻子）硬化。尽管已有报道其在相邻部位出现，但临床发现与预期并无太大差异。本文报告一例累及腭部的鼻硬结病，该病例不仅偏离了其通常的发病部位和传播途径，而且在临床表现方面也呈现出令人困惑的表象。
