Aneurysmal Bone Cyst Presenting as a Pathologic Fracture in a 12-Year-Old Football Player
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ANEURYSMAL BONE CYST ASSOCIATED WITH A PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE OF THE MANDIBLE: A CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
Pathologic fractures of the jaw are usually associated with aggressive, destructive lesions or malignant lesions of the jaws. Aneurysmal bone cysts (ABC) of the jaws are benign lesions which normally do not cause destruction to such an extent. This article reports a relatively aggressive ABC of the mandible in a 19 year-old male which destroyed the buccal and lingual cortices as well as th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Chiropractic Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1556-3707
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcm.2014.01.003