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Follicular or dentigerous (tooth‐containing) cyst in the premaxilla of an otherwise edentulous 65‐year‐old man
Author(s) -
Von Lüdinghausen Michael,
Schindler Gerhard,
Matsuura Mitsohiro
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
clinical anatomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1098-2353
pISSN - 0897-3806
DOI - 10.1002/1098-2353(200103)14:2<95::aid-ca1017>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - premaxilla , medicine , anatomy , dentigerous cyst , connective tissue , cyst , maxilla , stratified squamous epithelium , pathology , epithelium
A unilocular follicular or dentigerous cyst (FDC) with a diameter of 12 mm was observed incidentally in the premaxilla of a midsagittal section of the head of a 65‐year‐old cadaver. The mucosal lining of the cyst was grey in color and granular in texture: the osseous walls had a thickness of less than 1 mm. In the floor of the cyst, a slender, fully developed incisor tooth was fixed in a horizontal position. The alveolar processes of the maxilla and mandible were completely edentulous. Postmortem computer tomography showed the cyst in an osteolytic lesion of the premaxilla, and histology revealed a lining of non‐keratinized stratified squamous epithelium supported by a lamina propria of dense connective tissue. Clin. Anat. 14:95–101, 2001. © Wiley‐Liss, Inc.