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Revista Portuguesa de Estomatologia,
                                                      Medicina Dentária e Cirurgia Maxilofacial


                                                        rev port estomatol med dent cir maxilofac. 2021;62(3):170-175





           Case Report

           Bilateral simple bone cyst in mandible:
           Rare case report




           Milena Vargas Marques  , Ana Claudia Galvão de Aguiar Koubik  , Liliane Roskamp  ,
           Natanael Henrique Ribeiro Mattos  , Cintia Mussi Milani*

           Faculty of Dentistry, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil



           a r t i c l e   i n f o          a b s t r a c t

           Article history:                 The simple bone cyst is a benign osteolytic lesion, uncommon in the maxillomandibu-
           Received 10 February 2021        lar region. Its etiology remains unknown, although traumatic injuries are often asso-
           Accepted 19 August 2021          ciated with this injury. Young patients, men and women alike are the most affected. It
           Available online 29 September 2021  is asymptomatic in most cases, being diagnosed on routine radiographs. The radiolu-
                                            cent image, uni or multilocular, is well defined, with irregular margins, mainly in the
           Keywords:                        posterior region of the mandible. Bilateral presentation is unusual. The final diagnosis
           Bilateral                        is made during surgical procedures when an empty bone cavity is detected. Simple
           Bone cysts                       curettage is the treatment of choice and it consists of causing bleeding and filling the
           Mandible                         cavity with a blood clot. Bone repair will be observed in the follow-up procedures. The
                                            aim of this study was to present a rare case of bilateral simple bone cyst in a young
                                            male, treated with curettage of the bone walls. (Rev Port Estomatol Med Dent Cir Ma-
                                            xilofac. 2021;62(3):170-175)
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           *  Corresponding author.
            Correio eletrónico: cintiammilani@hotmail.com (Cintia Mussi Milani).
           http://doi.org/10.24873/j.rpemd.2021.09.845
           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/).
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