Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

White sponge nevus -A Report of Two Cases

  • Author:
  • Srinivas M1, Shailesh Kudva2, Jaishankar3, Jagadish Pai BS4, Amit Walvekar5
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 171 to 173

1Professor and Head, Department of Periodontics, Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, Virajpet- 571218, Karnataka, India

2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Pathology, Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, Virajpet- 571218, Karnataka, India

3Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, Virajpet- 571218, Karnataka, India

4Professor, Department of Periodontics, Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, Virajpet- 571218, Karnataka, India

5Senior Lecturer, Department of Periodontics, Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, Virajpet- 571218, Karnataka, India

Online published on 17 November, 2012.

Abstract

A 24 and 21 year old female patients presented with an asymptomatic, white, folded, soft, poorlydemarcated, diffuse plaques bilaterally on their buccal and labial mucosa. There is no family history of similar lesions. The clinical examination and histopathologic findings were consistent with a diagnosis of white sponge nevus. This rare disorder is typically inherited; however, as in these two cases, there have been only few other cases reported without a familial background.

Keywords

White Sponge Nevus, Buccal Mucosa, Diffuse white plaques