Vol.100 No.12 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 100 No. 12 December 2007
A Case of Ossifying Fibroma of the Maxillary Bone
Mutsukazu Kitano
(International Medical Center of Japan, Takeda General Hospital)
Hiroko Monobe, Asayo Endo and Masayuki Kabeya
(Takeda General Hospital)
Masato Nakashima
(Saitama Medical University Hospital)
Niro Tayama
(International Medical Center of Japan)
We report a rare case of ossifying fibroma of the maxillary bone. This patient was a 48-year-old female with pain and swelling on the left root of the nose. CT scan demonstrated a broken appearance of the anterior wall of the maxillary sinus and a ground-glass appearance of the maxillary bone. We performed Caldwell-Luc procedure under general anesthesia to rule out malignant neoplasm. The pathological diagnosis was ossifying fibroma of the maxillary bone. Ossifying fibroma is a benign neoplasm, but classification of this tumor is under discussion. We describe the diagnosis and classification of this tumor with reference to the literature.
Key words : ossifying fibroma, maxillary bone, classification