Foreign Body Granuloma in the Tongue by a Pequi Spine

• Main Authors: Rafael Martins Afonso Pereira (Author), Patrícia Cristine de Oliveira Afonso Pereira (Author), Vitor Carvalho Rodrigues (Author), Luiz Fernando Braga de Andrade (Author), Elisa Morais de Carvalho (Author), Helvécio Marangon Júnior (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Substances considered foreign to the human organism can penetrate it due to local trauma, initially causing an acute inflammatory response against these substances, involving a neutrophilic infiltrate that, when it fails to deal with these foreign bodies, ends up generating a granulomatous inflammat...