Abstract
A 19-year-old White female patient presented with the chief complaint of pain in the left region of the mandible, without extra- or intraoral clinical alteration. Radiographic exams and cone beam computed tomography revealed a mixed-density lesion, with poorly defined borders, promoting dental displacement, and cortical expansion by lingual. Teeth 31 to 35 showed thickening of the periodontal ligament. The provisional diagnosis was osteoblastoma. An incisional biopsy revealed the presence of thin, anastomosed irregular bone trabeculae, lined by a rim of osteoblasts and occasional osteoclast-like multinucleated giant cells, permeated by fibrovascular stroma, confirming the clinical hypothesis of osteoblastoma. The lesion was surgically removed, and the final diagnosis was osteoblastoma. Osteoblastoma is a rare benign neoplasm in the jaw, and diagnosis is based on the correlation between clinicopathologic findings. Because of its varied clinical behavior, early diagnosis is an important strategy for the establishment of an effective treatment.
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