title: A rare location of benign osteoblastoma: review of the literature and report of a case.
abstract: Benign osteoblastoma is a rare primary bone tumor that constitutes approximately 1% of all primary bone tumors. Its occurrence in the craniomaxillofacial region as also rare and represents only 15% of all osteoblastomas. The tumor shows a predilection for the male gender and constitutes less than 1% of all tumors of the maxillofacial region. In the maxillofacial region, the mandible is affected more frequently than the maxilla, and the coronoid process of the mandible is the area most rarely affected by osteoblastoma. Before this report, 53 cases have been reported in the literature. In this report, a rare location of osteoblastoma, namely, the coronoid process of the mandible, is described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ege, University, Izmir, Turkey. ubilkay@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Ufuk
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Bilkay
authors.forename: Ozgur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Erdem
authors.forename: Cuneyt
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ozek
authors.forename: Evren
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Helvaci
authors.forename: Kamil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kilic
authors.forename: Yesim
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ertan
authors.forename: Tahir
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gurler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D018215:Osteoblastoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*