title: Radiology of multiloculated fibrous dysplasia of the jaws.
abstract: Three cases of multiloculated lesion of the jaw (two in the mandible and one in the maxillar) closely mimicking ameloblastoma are described. Histology showed all three to be fibrous dysplasia. Against a diagnosis of ameloblastoma were (1) the relative fuzziness of the margins of the loculi and septae; (2) the mineralization of the matrix which gave a ground-glass background instead of the distinct radiolucency seen in ameloblastoma; and (3) the non-resorption of the dental root apices within the lesion.
mesh_terms: D000564:Ameloblastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005357:Fibrous Dysplasia of Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007571:Jaw Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007573:Jaw Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography