Chronic inflammation of the lips, acquired, respoinsible for edema that can become permanent
- Clinical presentiation
- Intermitent episodes of often asymmetrical swelling of the lip
- Then the hypertrophy becomes permanent, resulting in a “tapir lip”
- Associations
- Histology
- Noncaseating epithelioid granulomas around the upper half of undisrupted hair follicle with lymphocytic infiltrates
- Treatment
- Symptomatic
- Corticosteroids - intralesional, systemic
- Clofazimine
- No consensus on treatment
- Reduction cheiloplasty
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