Desmoplastic fibroma is a rare benign tumour of bone. Diagnosis is not easy and is often made by excluding other tumours. Histopathological diagnosis of this tumour is also sometimes not easy. The treatment modalities for this tumour are non-uniform and often controversial. In the present case surgical options were left aside because the patient did not consent to surgery, so radiotherapy was u...

Odontogenic fibroma (OF) is considered an unusual, benign mesenchymal neoplasm and one of the most little-understood lesions amongst all odontogenic neoplasms. The incidence rate of the tumor is from 0% to 5.5%. WHO classified them into intraosseous or central and extraosseous or peripheral variants. It chiefly consists of fibroblastic tissue with an inconsistent amount of inactive appearing od...

Introduction: Peripheral odontogenic tumors are rare and there is no valid information of the frequency of them in the literature. This study aims to obtain the frequency of these tumors. Materials and Methods: The files of oral and maxillofacial pathology (microscopic reports and slides), faculty of dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences served as the source of the material...

Ameloblastic fibroma is a rare benign tumor usually affects the first two decades of life. The neoplasm more predominant in mandibular molar-premolar region and rarely maxilla. In this report, we present couple cases, affecting boys at their 1st decade. lesions were presented as swellings maxilla, which atypical location. Radiographic images showed well-defined radiolucency containing areas rad...

Central Ossifying Fibroma in mandible: A Case Report with aggrasive behavior review of differential dragwsis

OBJECTIVE To perform a comparative study of the cellular proliferation in the peripheral and central fibromas. MATERIAL AND METHODS Immunohistochemistry for PCNA and the AgNOR technique were performed in 9 cases of peripheral odontogenic fibroma (POF), in 4 cases of odontogenic fibroma (OdF), in 8 cases of peripheral ossifying fibroma (PEOF) and 7 cases of ossifying fibroma (OsF). The Kruskal...

A 35-year-old man visited us with a chief complaint of painful swelling of the finger. A physical examination revealed a palpable mass, measuring approximately 2 cm × 1 cm, on the dorsoradial side of the base of the middle phalanx of the right index finger (Fig. 1A). Upon history taking, we found that the mass had formed 7 to 8 years before and had since grown slowly. The mass had a firm, hard,...

1 D/O R L Gupta, Raja Cycle Colony,Street No 2,Srinagar Road Ajmer, Rajasthan Pin 305007 2 347, Ward No 9 Salavato Ka Bas Sadri, Dist Pali, Rajasthan Pin 306702 Email: [email protected], Telephone: +919887733389 3 C/O R L Gupta, Raja Cycle Colony, Street No 2, Srinagar Road Ajmer, Rajasthan Pin 305007 4 3/75 Hanuman Bagh Colony, Nagaur Rajasthan Pin 341001 ABSTRACT Calcifying aponeurotic...

A nuchal fibroma is a rare benign mass; it is a fibrolipoma-like soft tissue mass, usually located in the lower back and the neck. Males are affected far more often than females. It can occur extranuchally. It is a slow growing tumor and usually asymptomatic. We present a rare case of a 39-year old female who was diagnosed with nuchal-type fibroma on final pathology. The proper management for t...