Introduction: Chondromyxoid fibroma (CMF) is a rare benign bone tumor that typically affects long bones, only 2% of CMFs involved facial bones or skull, zygomatic localization is extremely rare with only 8 cases reported in literature so far.
Presentation Of Case: We report a case of 88 old years patient with painful swelling in the right zygomatic around 1 year, progressively increasing in volume, Computed tomography (CT) scan showed an osteolytic lesion in the right zygomatic bone with cortical destruction. Surgical management consisted of bone curettage using intra oral approach, the histopahological findings were in favor of the diagnosis of CMF.
Introduction: Mandibular localization of tuberculosis is rare and represents less than 2% of skeletal locations. Its clinical and radiological features are not specific. In this paper, we report a case of fortuitous discovery of mandibular tuberculosis after a histopathological analysis of the surgical resected specimen during surgical management of an ameloblastoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 58-year-old man presented to the neurosurgical emergencies for a transzygomatic transcranial stab wound with a retained broken knife. The patient was neurologically intact. After radiographic evaluation the knife was found to be penetrating the temporal lobe, neighboring the intracavernous portion of the carotid artery.
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