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Multiple dentigerous cysts in several facial bones
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DENTIGEROUS
Oral Surg. November, 1979
CYSTS IN SEVERAL
FACIAL
60-year-olddiabetic, hypertensive, Hispanic woman was seen in the emergency department of Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Bronx Municipal Hospital Center with a chief complaint of headache and bleeding from the left ear after a fall on ice. Routine skull radiographs revealed no skull fracture but did show multiple radiolucencies containing radiopaque objects in several facial bones. The patient had not previously been aware of this, despite routine dental treatment in the past. Biopsies of two of the mandibular lesions were interpreted as cysts. A total-body bone scan was noncontributory. To-
BONES
mography of the facial bones showed radiolucent areas containing toothlike densities in the mandible, maxillary sinuses, maxilla, and adjacent to the infraorbital rim. David E. Shdnkopf, D.D.S. Do&d Sudowsky. D.D.S., M.P.H., Ph.D. Burton Srifr, M.D. Departments of Dentistry and Radiology Albert Einstein College of MedicineBronx Municipal Hospital Center Bronx, N. Y.
A
DENTIGEROUS
Oral Surg. November, 1979
CYSTS IN SEVERAL
FACIAL
60-year-olddiabetic, hypertensive, Hispanic woman was seen in the emergency department of Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Bronx Municipal Hospital Center with a chief complaint of headache and bleeding from the left ear after a fall on ice. Routine skull radiographs revealed no skull fracture but did show multiple radiolucencies containing radiopaque objects in several facial bones. The patient had not previously been aware of this, despite routine dental treatment in the past. Biopsies of two of the mandibular lesions were interpreted as cysts. A total-body bone scan was noncontributory. To-
BONES
mography of the facial bones showed radiolucent areas containing toothlike densities in the mandible, maxillary sinuses, maxilla, and adjacent to the infraorbital rim. David E. Shdnkopf, D.D.S. Do&d Sudowsky. D.D.S., M.P.H., Ph.D. Burton Srifr, M.D. Departments of Dentistry and Radiology Albert Einstein College of MedicineBronx Municipal Hospital Center Bronx, N. Y.