Surgical ciliated cyst after a mandibular surgery: a particular case report and review of the literature.

Background: Surgical ciliated cyst is a rare clinicopathological lesion that appears in patients who undergo maxillofacial surgery. In this report we present a particular mandibular case and we discuss the etiopathogenesis and clinicopathological features of this pathology after reviewing the current literature, as well as the origin of its respiratory epithelial profile.

Case Presentation: The patient is a 67-year-old male with an irregular radiolucency in a previously tooth extracted area of the mandible.