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How to describe lesions

Location

You have to be very very specific

Distribution and definition

  • Localised

  • generalized

  • Regular or Irregular border

    Size

Shape

  • Macule
  • Vesicle
  • Pustule
  • Papule
  • Nodule
  • plaque
  • sesile-based/pedunculate -ulcers/erosions

Colour

Homogeous

  • Red (erythroplakia)
  • White (leukoplakia)

Consistency

-soft

  • hard -fluctuant

texture

History

  • when did it start
  • Pain
  • Experience of trauma
  • Medicationt changes

Surgical Sieve

VITAMINS CDE

Vascular

Infective of inflammatory

Trauma

Autoimmune

Metabolic

Idiopathic or Iatrogenic (thermal/chemical/laceration)

Neoplasia

socio cultural

Active minds

Whats important?

  • Persistent oral mucosal lesions - red or white
  • ulcerations
  • indurations -fixated to deep tissue
  • Rapidly growing (excluding meal time syndromes)
  • Bleeding easily (spontaneous in the absnce of periodontal disease)
  • Numbness in absence of clear cause
  • Trismus
  • Neck lumps (lymph nodes or thyroid nodules)

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