title: Focal Benign Disorders of the Pediatric Mandible With Radiologic-Histopathologic Correlation: Mandibular Development and Lucent Lesions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Lucent lesions of the pediatric mandible may present variably. Cysts, neoplasms, and developmental and inflammatory conditions have a host of possible causes. There is also substantial overlap in the imaging appearance of cysts and that of benign but locally aggressive tumors that need to undergo resection.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The purpose of this article is to present common and uncommon lucent lesions of the mandible in children, with an emphasis on benign abnormalities. Discussions of imaging and histopathologic features are provided.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.|2 Present address: Department of Radiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX.
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Plunk
authors.affiliation: 3 Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: Dolphine
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oda
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.|4 Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, MA.7.220, Seattle, WA 98105.
authors.forename: Shawn E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Parnell
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.|4 Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, MA.7.220, Seattle, WA 98105.
authors.forename: Jason N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: 3 Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.|5 Department of Laboratories, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: Bonnie L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.|4 Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, MA.7.220, Seattle, WA 98105.
authors.forename: Ramesh S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Iyer
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007570:Jaw Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008437:Maxilla / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D010000:Osteitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
keywords: lucent lesions; mandibular tumors; nonlucent lesions; pediatric mandible; radiologic-histopathologic correlation