Volume 8, Issue 4 (2-1995)                   Med J Islam Repub Iran 1995 | Back to browse issues page

XML Print

Download citation:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:
KALANTAR MOTAMEDI M H, KALANTAR MOTAMEDI M H, KALANTAR MOTAMEDI M R, YAZDI I. MANDIBULAR OSTEOSARCOMA MISTAKEN FOR PERICORONAL INFECTION A CASE REPORT. Med J Islam Repub Iran 1995; 8 (4) :271-275
URL: http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1369-en.html
MANDIBULAR OSTEOSARCOMA MISTAKEN FOR PERICORONAL INFECTION A CASE REPORT
MOHAMMAD HOSEIN KALANTAR MOTAMEDI , MOHAMMAD HASAN KALANTAR MOTAMEDI , MOHAMMAD REZA KALANTAR MOTAMEDI , ISMAIL YAZDI
From the Department of Oral. Maxillofacial and Reconstructive Surgery, Baqiyatollah Hospital, Imam Hosein University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I.R. Iran.
Abstract:   (3986 Views)
Osteosarcoma is relatively rare in the jaws and variable in presentation, thus its recognition may be quite confusing and delay diagnosis and treatment. Also, in contrast to most malignancies, osteosarcoma is usually encountered earlier in life and may clinically resemble features of more common oral entities such as chronic osteomyelitis, fibrous dysplasia, osteoblastic metastatic carcinoma, ossifying subperiosteal hematoma and chondrosarcoma. Hence definitive treatment may be inadvertently delayed, jeopardizing the chance for cure. A case of chondroblastic osteosarcoma of the mandible which was mistakenly treated as a pericoronal infection by a dentist is presented. The treatment instituted was continued for several weeks despite progression of the lesion, after which the patient was referred. This delay made necessary a more radical resection than that which would have been needed had the patient been referred earlier.
Full-Text [PDF 657 kb]   (1810 Downloads)    
Type of Study: case report | Subject: Surgery
Add your comments about this article : Your username or Email:
CAPTCHA
Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.