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Yael Oestreicher-Kedem, MD; Ilana Kaplan, DMD; Shlomo Calderon, DMD
Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel (Drs Oestreicher-Kedem and Calderon), and Goldschelger School of Dental Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel (Dr Kaplan)

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2003;129:897.

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A 16-YEAR-OLD boy presented with a slowly enlarging solid, nonpainful mass in the body of the mandible. He stated that he had had a similar slowly enlarging mass in the same region 7 years earlier and that the mass had been excised. He was otherwise healthy. Physical examination revealed a 3 x 4-cm, nontender, rubberlike mass adhering to the body of the mandible and covered with normal-appearing mucosa. The results of the rest of clinical examination of the patient's head and neck were unremarkable. An x-ray film of the mental region showed a well-defined radiolucent unilocular area. A computed tomographic scan of the mandible revealed a depression of the buccal cortical plate of the mandiblein the mental region and a unilocular radiolucent lesion with sclerotic margins.

The patient was taken to the operating room, where he underwent exploration of the mandible . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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