Asymptomatic Presentation of Aggressive Ossifying Fibroma:A Case Report

Ossifying fibromas form a part of the spectrum of fibro-osseous lesions of the jaws. They are rare, benign, nonaggressive tumors that are commonly seen in head and neck region. This paper presents the case of a 40-year-old female patient presented with minimal clinical symptoms, diagnosed to be suff...

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Autores principales: Kashyap, Roopashri Rajesh, Nair, Gopakumar R., Gogineni, Subhas Babu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/523751
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author Kashyap, Roopashri Rajesh
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description Ossifying fibromas form a part of the spectrum of fibro-osseous lesions of the jaws. They are rare, benign, nonaggressive tumors that are commonly seen in head and neck region. This paper presents the case of a 40-year-old female patient presented with minimal clinical symptoms, diagnosed to be suffering from aggressive form of ossifying fibroma of maxilla involving the maxillary sinus and ethmoid sinus. This paper emphasizes the importance of computed tomography in diagnosing such unapparent aggressive tumors.
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spelling pubmed-33355202012-05-07 Asymptomatic Presentation of Aggressive Ossifying Fibroma:A Case Report Kashyap, Roopashri Rajesh Nair, Gopakumar R. Gogineni, Subhas Babu Case Rep Dent Case Report Ossifying fibromas form a part of the spectrum of fibro-osseous lesions of the jaws. They are rare, benign, nonaggressive tumors that are commonly seen in head and neck region. This paper presents the case of a 40-year-old female patient presented with minimal clinical symptoms, diagnosed to be suffering from aggressive form of ossifying fibroma of maxilla involving the maxillary sinus and ethmoid sinus. This paper emphasizes the importance of computed tomography in diagnosing such unapparent aggressive tumors. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3335520/ /pubmed/22567440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/523751 Text en Copyright © 2011 Roopashri Rajesh Kashyap et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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