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1: Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2001 Apr;91(4):438-44.Click here to read Links

Gigantiform cementoma: clinicopathologic presentation of 3 cases.

Abdelsayed RA, Eversole LR, Singh BS, Scarbrough FE.

Department of Oral Biology and Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, The Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912, USA. rabdelsa@mail.mg.edu

Gigantiform cementoma is a rare, benign fibro-cemento-osseous disease of the jaws, seen most frequently in young girls. Radiographically, it typically presents as multiquadrant, expansile, mixed radiolucent-opaque lesions that cross the midlines of the jaws. Although cases with a familial pattern are noted in a few publications, sporadic cases have been reported without a family history. The term gigantiform cementoma has been used interchangeably with designations of other fibro-osseous entities, yet its application should be restricted by the criteria defined herein. In this article, we report 3 cases of gigantiform cementoma. Clinical, radiographic, and microscopic features of these lesions are presented, along with criteria to differentiate gigantiform cementoma from other fibro-osseous diseases of the jaws. A possible pathogenetic mechanism and treatment recommendations are discussed.

PMID: 11312460 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]