Atypical presentation of a solitary bone cyst.
Solitary bone cysts, also known as haemorrhagic, traumatic or simple bone cysts, of the jaws are a well-recognised entity, being found primarily in the mandible, occasionally in the maxilla and rarely in the zygoma. In this report, routine investigative measures confused the diagnosis of the lesion.
D000293:Adolescent; D000564:Ameloblastoma / Q000473:pathology; D001845:Bone Cysts / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008336:Mandibular Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D009807:Odontogenic Cysts / Q000473:pathology