Department of Surgery, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria
We reviewed case records of patients diagnosed to have jaw tumours to determine clinical presentation, histological subtypes and difficulties encountered in the management.
Between Jan 1980 and december 1999,136 patients were diagnosed to have jaw tumours.
Seventy (51.4%) patients were males while 66 (48.6%) were females. The mandible was most common primary site-77 (56.6%) followed by maxilla-59 (43.3%). Histopathology-Fibro-osseous tumours were most common-41 (30.1%), followed by Ameloblastoma-28 (20.6%), cystic tumours-21 (15.4%), osteosarcoma-6 (4.4%), undifferentiated carcinoma-6 (4.4%), fibromyxoma-5 (3.6%), Burkitt's lymphoma-4 (2.9%), plasmacytoma-3 (2.2%) and Odontoblastoma in-2 (1.5%).
