High-grade primary leiomyosarcoma in the mandible: diagnosis and treatment.

Background: Leiomyosarcoma is a malignant tumor that originates in smooth muscle cells and is rarely found in the oral cavity. We present a case of high-grade primary leiomyosarcoma in the mandible and discuss the diagnosis process.

Methods: The patient was a 64-year-old white man who had a slight increase in volume in the left-side mandible with a radiolucent osteolytic image with the destruction of the mandibular cortex.

Low-grade gingival leiomyosarcoma in a child.

Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) of the oral cavity, a rare mesenchymal tumor exhibiting smooth-muscle differentiation, is extremely uncommon in childhood. The most frequent location of childhood LMS is the gastrointestinal tract, particularly the stomach. The purpose of this paper is to report a case of leiomyosarcoma affecting the gingival tissues and mandible of a 9-year-old girl with peculiar clinical, microscopic, and radiographic features.