A Case of Gingival Enlargement in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Sara Soheylifar; • Mohammad Vahedi; Mahdi Kadkhodazadeh; Mohsen Jali Bidgol

J Periodontol Implant Dent. 2009;1(1): 48-50.

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A Case of Gingival Enlargement in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Sara Soheylifar ¹, • Mohammad Vahedi ², Mahdi Kadkhodazadeh ³^*, Mohsen Jali Bidgol ¹

¹ Post-graduate Student, Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
² Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
³ Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

*Corresponding Author: Corresponding author; E-mail: , Email: kadkhodazadeh@umsha.ac.ir

Abstract

Periodontal findings of a 19-year-old female with previously undiagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are presented. Intraoral examination revealed generalized gingival enlargement, inconsistent with the amount of calculus. Chemotherapy for choriocarcinoma was a prominent note in history. Ruling out other etiologies, second CBC and peripheral blood smear results confirmed AML. Six week after chemotherapy for AML, patient received scaling and root planning and the gingival enlargement was noticeably reduced.

Keywords: Choriocarcinoma, gingival enlargement, leukemia, periodontitis