01-12-2008 | Case Report
Clinico-Pathologic Conference AAOMP/IAOP 2008: Case 3
Published in: Head and Neck Pathology | Issue 4/2008
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A 1.5-year-old boy got a blow to his mandibular anterior teeth. Less than a month later, there was a 2 × 2 cm2 bluish-brownish soft mass in the vestibule extending between the deciduous canines. Central incisors were mobile. Radiographically, there was a midline lytic lesion with periosteal elevation. The lesion was curetted and the right central incisor extracted. During the next year there were three episodes of recurrence, for which the child was re-treated by curettage. The third recurrence appeared clinically as a secreting fistula and soft tissue swelling adjacent to the right mandibular first deciduous molar. The swelling did not respond to antibiotic treatment. The periapical X-ray, axial CT scan, and 3-D mandibular reconstruction images from this recurrence are illustrated in Fig. 1a, b, c, respectively.×
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