conditions described, previously, as a well-characterized disease and named it fibrous dysplasia [5,6]. The etiology of this entity is still unknown [7,8]. Clinically it is classified as monostotic or polyostotic, the first being focal, limited to a single bone, and the second, multifocal, involving several bones simultaneously [9].
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