HEAD AND NECK

Oral Cavity

• Teeth and supporting structures• Caries• Gingivitis• Periodontitis

• Inflammatory/ reactive tumor-like lesions• Fibrous proliferative lesions – irritation fibroma, pyogenic granuloma, peripheral ossifying fibroma and

giant cell granuloma• Aphthous ulcers (canker sores)• Glossitis – vitamin deficiencies, Plummer-Vinson (Paterson-Kelly) syndrome

• Infections• Herpes simplex virus infections• Other viral infections• Oral candidiasis (thrush)• Deep fungal infections

• Oral manifestations of systemic disease• Hairy leukoplakia, Table 16-1

• Tumor and precancerous lesions• Leukoplakia and erythroplakia• Squamous cell carcinoma – smoking, HPV

• Odontogenic cysts and tumors

Upper Airways• Nose

• Inflammation• Infectious rhinitis – “common cold”• Allergic rhinitis• Nasal polyps• Chronic rhinitis• Sinusitis

• Necrotizing lesions of the nose and upper airways• Acute fungal infections ( mucormycosis)• Wegener granulomatosis• Lymphoma of natural killer cells, EBV

• Nasopharynx• Inflammation – paharyngitis, tonsillitis

• Tumors of the nose, sinus, and nasopharynx• Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma• Sinonasal Papilloma• Olfactory neuroblastoma• Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma = EBV

• Larynx• Inflammation• Reactive nodules (vocal cord nodules and polyps)• Squamous papillomas and papillomatosis• Carcinoma of the larynx

Ears• Inflammatory lesions

• Acute or chronic otitis media• Cholesteatomas

• Otosclerosis• Tumors

Neck• Branchial Cyst (Cervical lymphoepithelial cyst)• Thyroglossal duct cyst• Paraganglioma (carotid body tumor)

Salivary Glands• Xerostomia• Inflammation (sialadenitis)

• Mucocele, ranula• Mumps• Sjogren syndorme• Sialolithiasis

• Neoplasms• Pleomorphic adenoma• Warthin tumor (papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum)• Mucoepidermoid carcinoma• Other salivary gland tumors

• Adenoid cystic carcinoma• Acinic cell tumor