Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Traumatic bone cyst of the mandible of possible iatrogenic origin: a case report and brief review of the literature | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Case report Open Access Traumatic bone cyst of the mandible of possible iatrogenic origin a case report and brief review of the literature Arsinoi A Xanthinaki 1 2 Konstantinos I Choupis1 2 Konstantinos Tosios1 2 Vasilios A Pagkalos1 2 and Stavros I Papanikolaou1 2 Address 1Oral Pathology Department School of Dentistry University of Athens Athens Greece and 2Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department School of Dentistry University of Athens Athens Greece Email Arsinoi AXanthinaki - xanthinaki@ Konstantinos I Choupis - choupis@ Konstantinos Tosios - ktosios@ Vasilios A Pagkalos - bapale@ Stavros I Papanikolaou - irizou@ Corresponding author Published 12 November 2006 Received 29 May 2006 Accepted 12 November 2006 Head Face Medicine 2006 2 40 doi 1746-160X-2-40 H This article is available from http contenV2 1 40 2006 Xanthinaki et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The traumatic bone cyst TBC is an uncommon nonepithelial lined cavity of the jaws. The lesion is mainly diagnosed in young patients most frequently during the second decade of life. The majority of TBCs are located in the mandibular body between the canine and the third molar. Clinically the lesion is asymptomatic in the majority of cases and is often accidentally discovered on routine radiological examination usually as an unilocular radiolucent area with a scalloping effect . The definite diagnosis of traumatic cyst is invariably achieved at surgery. Since material for histologic examination may be scant or non-existent it is very often difficult for a definite histologic diagnosis to be achieved. We present a well documented .
