A 33-Year-old Man with a Rapidly Growing Lump on the Dorsal Tongue

A 33-year-old male professional singer presented to his dentist with a rapidly growing lump on his tongue in October 2019. He was a non-smoker and had no significant medical or family history. The patient was initially not aware of the presence of the lesion until he felt that he may have burnt the site with a hot meal. On examination, there was a 3 × 2 cm circumscribed, firm, broad-based and slightly fixed submucosal lump on the right posterior dorsal tongue. The lump was covered with normal appearing mucosa with a prominent network of superficial blood vessels (Figure 1).