Infantile anterior maxillary swelling: A diagnostician's dilemma

Anterior maxillary swellings are commonly encountered in the adolescents and adults and they represent lesions ranging from cysts to tumors which can be both benign as well as malignant. However the anterior maxillary swellings are a rare phenomenon in the infants and toddlers and they generally are...

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Autores principales: Patil, Dharamraj B, Wadhwan, Vijay, Patil, Sheetal D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32189905
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.JOMFP_300_19
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description Anterior maxillary swellings are commonly encountered in the adolescents and adults and they represent lesions ranging from cysts to tumors which can be both benign as well as malignant. However the anterior maxillary swellings are a rare phenomenon in the infants and toddlers and they generally are indicative of an aggressive lesion. We hereby present a case of a rapidly growing infantile swelling which was histopathologically diagnosed as Peripheral Giant Cell Granuloma.
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spelling pubmed-70691332020-03-18 Infantile anterior maxillary swelling: A diagnostician's dilemma Patil, Dharamraj B Wadhwan, Vijay Patil, Sheetal D J Oral Maxillofac Pathol Case Report Anterior maxillary swellings are commonly encountered in the adolescents and adults and they represent lesions ranging from cysts to tumors which can be both benign as well as malignant. However the anterior maxillary swellings are a rare phenomenon in the infants and toddlers and they generally are indicative of an aggressive lesion. We hereby present a case of a rapidly growing infantile swelling which was histopathologically diagnosed as Peripheral Giant Cell Granuloma. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-02 2020-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7069133/ /pubmed/32189905 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.JOMFP_300_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32189905
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.JOMFP_300_19
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