Gorham's Disease of the Mandible

Gorham's disease is a rare condition characterized by progressive osteolysis of bone with ultimate total disappearance of bone. The aetiology is undetermined. It may affect any bone of the body, although there is predilection for the pelvis, humerus, axial skeleton, and mandible. Because of the...

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Autores principales: Ravindran, Rathy, Karunakaran, Anila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24066242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/723583
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description Gorham's disease is a rare condition characterized by progressive osteolysis of bone with ultimate total disappearance of bone. The aetiology is undetermined. It may affect any bone of the body, although there is predilection for the pelvis, humerus, axial skeleton, and mandible. Because of the rarity, the disorder goes unrecognized. Various treatment modalities are undertaken with very limited success. We report a case of Gorham's disease of mandible in a 62-year-old man and the literature is reviewed with emphasis on aetiology, diagnosis management.
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spelling pubmed-37700322013-09-24 Gorham's Disease of the Mandible Ravindran, Rathy Karunakaran, Anila Case Rep Dent Case Report Gorham's disease is a rare condition characterized by progressive osteolysis of bone with ultimate total disappearance of bone. The aetiology is undetermined. It may affect any bone of the body, although there is predilection for the pelvis, humerus, axial skeleton, and mandible. Because of the rarity, the disorder goes unrecognized. Various treatment modalities are undertaken with very limited success. We report a case of Gorham's disease of mandible in a 62-year-old man and the literature is reviewed with emphasis on aetiology, diagnosis management. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3770032/ /pubmed/24066242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/723583 Text en Copyright © 2013 R. Ravindran and A. Karunakaran. 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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