Problems in diagnosing odontogenic myxoma: Case report
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Problems in diagnosing odontogenic myxoma: case report.
Tumours and tumour-like growths arising from odontogenic tissues constitute a heterogenous group of lesions whose diagnosis can be particularly challenging on the part of both surgeons and pathologists. In children, these lesions are even more difficult to clinically and histopathologically diagnose definitively because of the concurrent diverse embryologic differentiation of dental tissues. A ...
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عنوان ژورنال: East African Medical Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0012-835X
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v84i3.9517