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Revista Portuguesa de Estomatologia,
Medicina Dentária e Cirurgia Maxilofacial

rev port estomatol med dent cir maxilofac. 2021;62(3):163-169

Case Report

Calcifying odontogenic cyst associated with
an antral pseudocyst: treatment of an uncommon

case report and update of main findings

a
b
a,
Glória Maria de França * , Dáurea Adília Cóbe Sena , Juliana Campos Pinheiro ,
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Rodrigo Rodrigues Rodrigues , Adriano Rocha Germano , Hébel Cavalcanti Galvão
a Postgraduate Program in Dental Sciences, Concentration Area in Stomatology and Oral Pathology, Department of Dentistry, Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal-Brazil
a Postgraduate Program in Dental Sciences, Concentration Area in Experimental Biology, Department of Biosciences, Universidade Federal do
Rio Grande do Norte, Natal-Brazil.
c Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology Service, Department of Dentistry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte,
Natal-Brazil.

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history: A calcifying odontogenic cyst may be associated with odontogenic tumors, particularly
Received 31 October 2020 odontomas. However, the association between calcifying odontogenic cysts and odontogenic
Accepted 11 June 2021 cysts is rare. This study aims to report the first case of a calcifying odontogenic cyst asso-
Available online 30 July 2021 ciated with an antral pseudocyst. A male patient presented a tumor lesion in his right
maxillary alveolar ridge with 6 months of evolution and painful symptoms . An excisional
Keywords: biopsy was performed, and a histopathological diagnosis of calcifying odontogenic cyst
Antral pseudocyst associated with an antral pseudocyst was issued. The treatment of choice was lesion enu-
Calcifying odontogenic cyst cleation and curettage. The patient has been under follow-up for about 3 years without
Maxillary sinus lesion recurrence, which is typical indolent calcifying odontogenic cyst behavior. (Rev Port
Odontogenic cysts Estomatol Med Dent Cir Maxilofac. 2021;62(3):163-169)
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* Corresponding author.
Correio eletrónico: gloriafracam@gmail.com (Glória Maria de França).
http://doi.org/10.24873/j.rpemd.2021.06.838
1646-2890/© 2021 Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária. Published by SPEMD.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).