Animasahun Barakat Adeola, Kayode-Awe Gbenga, Kusimo Olusola Yejide
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
Department of Paediatrics, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
AME Case Rep. 2019 Jun 11;3:20. doi: 10.21037/acr.2019.05.05. eCollection 2019.
Cases of jaw masses abound in our environment which is a tropical one, with Burkitt lymphoma being the commonest aetiology. However rarer causes like juvenile aggressive ossifying fibroma should also be considered. It is a locally aggressive tumor with high recurrent potentials occurring in children and adolescent. Here we present the clinical features, physical findings and challenges in diagnosing and management of a 7-year-old boy who presented to the Paediatric unit of our institute with a right jaw mass.
在我们所处的热带环境中,颌部肿物的病例很多,其中伯基特淋巴瘤是最常见的病因。然而,像青少年侵袭性骨化性纤维瘤这种较罕见的病因也应予以考虑。它是一种具有高复发潜能的局部侵袭性肿瘤,发生于儿童和青少年。在此,我们呈现一名7岁男孩的临床特征、体格检查结果以及在诊断和治疗方面所面临的挑战,该男孩因右侧颌部肿物就诊于我院儿科。