Slootweg P J
Department of Pathology, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands.
Histopathology. 2009 Mar;54(4):401-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2008.03097.x. Epub 2008 Jul 11.
The jaws differ in various aspects from all other bones in the skeleton. Embryologically, they are for the major part derived from migrating cells of the cranial neural crest, the so-called ectomesenchyme, and not merely from mesoderm, and they contain teeth. This latter point, especially, results in the presence of lesions that are not found in other bones, a broad variety of odontogenic cysts and tumours. They will be the major topic of this review. Other lesions, not strictly odontogenic but also mainly confined to the jaw bones, are giant cell lesions, fibro-osseous lesions, and the melanotic neuro-ectodermal tumour of infancy. They also will be included in this overview.
颌骨在多个方面与骨骼中的所有其他骨头不同。从胚胎学角度来看，它们主要源自颅神经嵴的迁移细胞，即所谓的外胚间叶组织，而不仅仅是中胚层，并且它们含有牙齿。尤其后一点导致出现了其他骨头中未发现的病变，即各种各样的牙源性囊肿和肿瘤。它们将是本综述的主要主题。其他病变，虽并非严格意义上的牙源性病变，但也主要局限于颌骨，包括巨细胞病变、纤维骨性病变以及婴儿黑色素神经外胚层肿瘤。本概述也将涵盖这些病变。
