A giant lingual pyogenic granuloma

yogenic granuloma is a benign proliferative lesion. It is a localized non-specific lesion, which is rapidly growing.1 The usual site is the gum, it can occur on the buccal mucosa and less commonly on the tongue.2 The lesion consists of large masses of proliferating endothelial cells, which are separated by an edematous stroma containing inflammatory cells.3 Th usual clinical presentation is of a rapidly growing, painless mass of the gingival or buccal mucosa that tends to bleed with mastication or routine brushing.4 El Mustafa and Badie5 reported the clinical, histopathological features and the treatment of a lingual granuloma gravidarum in a Sudanese patient in the puerperium.In this article, a giant lingual pyogenic granuloma is reported in a Sudanese boy following a lacerated wound of th