title: [Clinical analysis of 67 patients with faces and jaws tumors].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the clinical features and the treatment result of occlusal surface bone tumors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty-seven patients with occlusal surface bone tumors were retrospective analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Benign and malignant tumors were respectively 57 (85%) and 10 (15%). Significant differences (P < 0.05) were observed between the age of male and female. Fifty-five patients followed up from 8 months to 10 years, fifteen patients closed to follow up. Five cases were found local recurrence of tumors in 52 patients. Fifteen patients were performed partial resection of mandible, among of them, 12 mandible defects were reconstructed simultaneously and the reconstruction, survived well without failure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Polycystic disease of the jaw are usually handled by curettage; Auto-bone transplantation is still a good method in the reconstruction of mandible defects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhanjiang Central People's Hospital, Zhanjiang 524037, China. zjyun100@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Yunfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Dahong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Dacai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Jixian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Wenwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhong
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005147:Facial Bones; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007568:Jaw; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult