Focal cemento-osseous dysplasia masquerading as benign cementoblastoma: A diagnostic dilemma

Gayathri S Rao; Muralidhar G Kamalapur; Swetha Acharya

doi:10.4103/0973-029X.131949

Focal cemento-osseous dysplasia masquerading as benign cementoblastoma: A diagnostic dilemma

J Oral Maxillofac Pathol. 2014 Jan;18(1):150. doi: 10.4103/0973-029X.131949.

Authors

Gayathri S Rao¹, Muralidhar G Kamalapur², Swetha Acharya³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Sattur, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
² Department of Radio-diagnosis and Imaging, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Sattur, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
³ Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Sattur, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.

Abstract

Context: Focal cemento-osseous dysplasia (FCOD) is a fibro-osseous lesion that is a nonneoplastic reactive lesion.

Case report: A case of 47-year-old female patient presenting with a diagnostic dilemma to the clinician is reported. Methods to achieve definitive diagnosis are discussed.

Conclusions: FCOD can present with features of periapical pathology or other osseous lesions. Hence, to arrive at a definitive diagnosis biopsy and histopathologic examination is imperative.

Keywords: Cemento-osseous dysplasia; fibro-osseous lesion; focal cemento-osseous dysplasia; periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia.

Publication types

Case Reports