Sadaksharam Jayachandran, Murugesan Manikandan
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Tamil Nadu Government Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Contemp Clin Dent. 2019 Apr-Jun;10(2):394-396. doi: 10.4103/ccd.ccd_566_18.
Osteomyelitis is an inflammatory process of both cortical and medullary bone. In the maxillofacial skeleton, it can be seen more commonly in mandible as compared to the maxilla. Here, we present a rare case of osteomyelitis involving the entire maxillae in a 55-year-old male patient highlighting the clinical findings and radiographic features with treatment modalities.
骨髓炎是一种累及皮质骨和髓质骨的炎症过程。在颌面部骨骼中,与上颌骨相比,下颌骨骨髓炎更为常见。在此,我们报告一例罕见的骨髓炎病例,该病例发生在一名55岁男性患者的整个上颌骨,重点介绍了临床表现、影像学特征及治疗方式。