Open AccessA rare presentation of a simple bone cyst
Author(s) -
E Tatu Joy,
L P Raghupathy,
J Eugenia Sherubin,
M Shashi Kiran
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/0975-7406.163590
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , medicine , lesion , histopathological examination , maxilla , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , etiology , pathology , cyst , radiology , anatomy , biology , botany , genus
Simple bone cyst is an oft-described entity, which goes by many sobriquets and has been presented in the literature as early as 1926. It is a lesion of unclear etiology with many proposed hypothesis for its pathogenesis and nonspecific histopathological presentation. We present a case of a solitary bone cyst, which clinically presented as a solitary lesion, but radiological examination revealed multiple lesions peppering the maxilla and the mandible, thereby highlighting the importance of atypical presentation and "surprise" lesions that may show up on radiological examination.