Infantile mandibular fibromatosis: presentation of a case

Authors

  • Marisel García del Busto Chinea Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Caamaño. Matanzas, Cuba
  • Guillermo Sánchez Acuña Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Caamaño. Matanzas, Cuba
  • Angel Díaz Brito Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Caamaño. Matanzas, Cuba
  • Abel Santana González-Chávez Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Caamaño. Matanzas, Cuba

Keywords:

jaw fibrosis postraumática, child, pseudotumora, neoplasms desmoides

Abstract

The fibromatosis is a rare pseudotumoral entity. It is classify in juvenile fibromatosis and adult fibromatosis. The fibromatosis is characterized for a local aggressivity, recurrence but not metastases. Histopathological findings have indicated that fibromatosis is an invasive neoformation of fibromatous connective tissue involving adjacent structures. A 12 year-old female patient is presented that goes to clinic with increase of volume in right mandible of four months of evolution. On radiography studies is observed wide area highly vascular of osteolysis at level of the  mandibler body. The lesion was carried out surgically and a segmentary mandible resection was done. After six years of follow out she has presented a satisfactory evolution.

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García del Busto Chinea M, Sánchez Acuña G, Díaz Brito A, González-Chávez AS. Infantile mandibular fibromatosis: presentation of a case. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Apr. 1 [cited 2025 Feb. 2];34(1):103-9. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/933

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Presentation of cases

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