Abstract
A 47-years-old female patient was referred to our unit due to an incidental radiographic finding of a mixed radiolucent-radiopaque lesion in the right mandible ramus. Complementary blood tests, an updated panoramic radiography and a cone beam computed tomography were performed. The incisional biopsy's histopathological report described a craniofacial monostotic fibrous dysplasia of the mandible.
Highlights
The craniofacial fibrous dysplasia is a rare disease of which diagnosis is difficult due to multiple differential diagnosis
Fibro-osseous lesions of the jaws are a group of benign disorders that can affect bone. Within this group is Fibrous Dysplasia (FD), whose name was mentioned for the first time by Lichtenstein in 1938 [1] and by Lichtenstein and Jaffe in 1942 [2]
In this condition normal bone tissue is replaced by fibrous tissue and immature bone characterised by abnormal proliferation of fibrous tissue between normal and immature bone, caused by poorly differentiated osteoblasts
Summary
The fibrous dysplasia is a low prevalence fibroosseous lesion that can affect one or more bones, causing different degree of alterations. Conservative management with long-term follow-up is the treatment of choice in certain cases, avoiding surgical morbidity
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