Aggressive nasopalatine duct cyst with complete destruction of palatine bone
Author(s) -
D Sankar,
Muthusubramanian Veerabahu,
JA Nathan,
Ravi Sankar Nutalapati,
Yasmin Mary Jose,
Y Naren Kumar
Publication year - 2016
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 - 10.4103/0975-7406.191956
Subject(s) - medicine , cyst , lesion , anatomy , hard palate , presentation (obstetrics) , pathology , surgery
Nasopalatine duct cyst is the nonodontogenic developmental cyst, frequently occurring in the midline of the anterior maxillary region. The clinical presentation of the cyst is often varied and presents a diagnostic difficulty and frequently misdiagnosed as developmental or inflammatory odontogenic cystic lesion. This paper represents a large infected nasopalatine duct cyst presenting with complete destruction of anterior palate and pyriform rim.
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