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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 241-243 |
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Huge ossifying fibroma maxilla
Satya Prakash Agarwal, Sunil Kumar, Hitendra Pratap Singh, Shahab Ali Usmani
Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Shahab Ali Usmani
Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0975-5950.183862
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Maxillofacial fibro-osseous lesions comprise a group of face and jaw disorders characterized by the replacement of bone by a benign connective-tissue matrix with varying amount of mineralized substances. Fibro-osseous lesions of the maxilla are not an uncommon tumor. Majority of the lesions with fibrous and osseous components include ossifying fibroma, fibrous dysplasia, cemento-ossifying fibroma, and cementifying fibroma. We present a case of 15-year-old female with huge fibroosseous lesion which was treated with total maxillectomy via a Weber-Ferguson approach. Histopathology established that
fibroosseous lesion as an ossifying fibroma. |
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