title: [Radiopaque lesions of the jaws].
abstract: This paper provides an overview of radiopaque lesions of the jaws after having outlined the various criteria for classification; depending on their etiology. Those lesions are generally separated into lesions with an unknown cause and lesions with a known etiology (phlogistic, dysplastic-dystrophic, tumoral). The authors give a general description of the clinical and radiographic symptoms of the main lesions. In many cases, with the exception of asymptomatic lesions with an unknown etiology, the patient presents a variable swelling that deforms the bone in question, resulting in asymmetry of the face and/or, depending on the site, nasal obstruction, mastication and speech disorders, exophthalmos with or without diplopia. The radiographic aspect of lesions and the associated laboratory and clinical findings often enable a diagnosis to be reached, but in doubtful cases diagnosis can only be confirmed by histological analysis.
authors.affiliation: Scuola di Specializzazione in Chirurgia Maxillo-facciale, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scotto Di Clemente
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Prota
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Iorio
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Sica
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007571:Jaw Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography