Osteomyelitis of the Mandible Simulating a Stafne Mandibular Cortical Defect

Ew, Lam; Ruprecht, A; Kd, Dolan; Ja, Frank

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“…This could be of particular importance to inexperienced researchers dealing with dry jaws as this misdiagnosis could lead to false prevalences and wrong interpretations of alveolar bone defects. The differential diagnosis of Stafne's bone defects includes benign and malignant jaw lesions such as odontogenic cystic lesion, non‐ossifying fibroma, fibrous dysplasia, osteomyelitis, vascular malformation, focal osteoporotic bone marrow defect, brown tumour of hyperparathyroidism, ameloblastoma, basal cell nevus syndrome, giant cell tumour or a metastasis from a primary malignant tumour (Adra et al ., 1980; Lam et al ., 1994; Prapanpoch & Langlais, 1994; Parvizi & Rout, 1997; Wood & Goaz, 1997; Segev et al ., 2006). Thus, in clinical circumstances, in cases in which the clinical examination and the plain film findings are not completely diagnostic, confirmatory testing with sialography, computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is warranted (Branstetter et al ., 1999; Shimizu et al ., 2006; Noonan et al ., 2008).…”

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Stafne's defects in two mandibles from archaeological sites in Croatia

Vodanović¹,

Šlaus²,

Galić³

et al. 2011

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Salivary gland inclusions in the mandible are relatively uncommon in recent as well as archaeological populations. This condition is well known to oral surgeons, but less so to anthropologists, osteologists and skeletal biologists. At present a limited number of reports pertaining to this condition in ancient populations are available in anthropological and palaeopathological literature, although scattered reports of cases in recent populations are found in dental journals. This paper analyses the prevalence of Stafne's bone defect in a large composite Croatian archaeological series (n ¼ 4250 mandibles), and reports on two cases in which computerised tomography was performed, in order to draw the attention of anthropologists, osteologists and skeletal biologists to this condition when faced with differential diagnosis of odontogenic lesions, cysts and neoplasms in the area of the angle of the mandible.

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