Open AccessVanishing Mandible: A Rare Case Report with Accent to Recent Concepts on Aetio-pathogenesis
Author(s) -
Durairaj Duraisamy,
Jai Santhosh Manikandan veerasamy,
Davidson Rajiah,
Bharathi Mani
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/15886.6851
Subject(s) - osteolysis , stress (linguistics) , medicine , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , disease , rare disease , bone disease , radiography , pathology , radiology , biology , philosophy , osteoporosis , linguistics , botany , genus
Massive osteolysis is a rare idiopathic bone disease resulting in progressive destruction of bone. Considering the rarity of encountering this fascinating bone disease, it is often misinterpreted as some other osteolytic disease. Hence, we present a well-documented case of massive osteolysis in a 29-year-old female patient with complete clinical, radiographic, macroscopic and microscopic features along with surgical photographs, which has been effectively managed at our hospital.