PATHOLOGIC QUIZ CASE 1
Eric J. Dierks, DMD, MD, Dennis A. Perry, DMD, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas
A healthy 29-year-old woman was noted to have a markedly displaced left maxillary third molar during a routine orthodontic evaluation. Roentgenograms disclosed an opaque left maxillary sinus with a third molar at the level of the orbital floor (Figs 1 and 2). The remainder of history and physical examination findings were otherwise unremarkable.
Aspiration of the left maxillary sinus produced a viscid, straw-colored fluid. Through a Caldwell-Luc approach, a large cystic lesion containing the third molar was removed. The hospital pathologist interpreted the specimen as a "dentigerous cyst," but the consulting oral pathologist disagreed.
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PATHOLOGIC QUIZ CASE 2
Frank B. Little, Jr, MD, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
A 40-year-old man had a six-month history of
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