Aggressive nasopalatine duct cyst with complete destruction of palatine bone.
Nasopalatine duct cyst is the nonodontogenic developmental cyst, frequently occurring in the midline of the anterior maxillary region. The clinical presentation of the cyst is often varied and presents a diagnostic difficulty and frequently misdiagnosed as developmental or inflammatory odontogenic cystic lesion. This paper represents a large infected nasopalatine duct cyst presenting with complete destruction of anterior palate and pyriform rim.
Department of OMFS, Ragas Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Sankar
Department of OMFS, Ragas Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Veerabahu
V
Muthusubramanian
Department of OMFS, Ragas Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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JA
Nathan
Department of OMFS, Ragas Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Ravi Sankar
RS
Nutalapati
Department of OMFS, Ragas Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Yasmin Mary
YM
Jose
Department of OMFS, Ragas Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Y Naren
YN
Kumar
Cone beam computed tomography; enucleation; nasopalatine duct cyst