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A large destructive aneurysmal bone cyst in the mandibular ramus with unusual involvement of the mandibular condyle and coronoid process
Author(s) -
deAzevedoVaz S.L.,
Oenning A.C.C.,
CarneiroJunior J.T.,
Arnaud M.V.C.,
Tuji F.M.,
HaiterNeto F.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
oral surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.156
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1752-248X
pISSN - 1752-2471
DOI - 10.1111/ors.12051
Subject(s) - medicine , condyle , aneurysmal bone cyst , coronoid process , radiography , cyst , anatomy , surgery , elbow , lesion
This article reports the case of a large aneurysmal bone cyst ( ABC ) in a 12‐year‐old girl, who came to the O phir L oyola H ospital ( B elém, P ará, B razil) complaining of pain and debilitated because of a secondary infection. Radiographic and tomographic findings presented an expansion/destruction pattern, including a slight narrowing of the oropharynx and destruction of the right mandibular condyle and coronoid process, which according to the literature are rarely affected by this type of cyst. Because of the size and progression of the cyst, the treatment included block resection with a costochondral rib graft. The clinical and radiographic aspects of expansion with destruction, associated with trans‐surgical moderate bleeding and the histopathological findings (dense connective tissue and numerous blood spaces) led to a final diagnosis of a mixed type ABC .