Inverted heart-shaped, interradicular radiolucent area of the anterior maxilla.
A variety of odontogenic, nonodontogenic, and inflammatory conditions may occur between the roots of the maxillary canine and lateral incisor. A list of differential diagnoses might include: odontogenic keratocyst, central giant cell granuloma, odontogenic myxoma, primordial cyst, lateral periodontal cyst, ameloblastoma, and radicular cyst. A diagnosis of globulomaxillary cyst should be noticeably absent from the list, however, and should be considered only after clinical radiographic, and microscopic correlation has effectively ruled out all other possibilities.
D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008439:Maxillary Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009807:Odontogenic Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography