Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

An Unusual Malignancy Associated with the Mandible: A Case Report

  • Author:
  • Shelly A, Gajendra Diwakar, Ahmedmujib B.R.
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 178 to 181

Department of Oral Pathology, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Science, New Delhi

Online published on 17 November, 2012.

Abstract

Carcinomas in the mouth and jaws usually arises from the epithelium lining of the oral cavity or the salivary gland tissue. It may arise within the mandible as a metastatic lesion from primary tumor in the breast, thyroid, kidney or lungs. However carcinoma arising as a primary tumor within the mandible is very rare. Here we report such a rare case of malignancy arising de novo in the mandible.

Keywords

Primary Intraosseous Carcinoma (PIOC), Pre Existing Odontogenic Cyst, Odontogenic Carcinoma