Imaging Science in Dentistry

Korean Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (대한영상치의학회)
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Multilocular developmental salivary gland defect

  • Kim, Jin-Soo (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and Oral Biology Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Chosun University)
  • Received : 2012.04.22
  • Accepted : 2012.07.03
  • Published : 2012.12.31
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Abstract

Developmental salivary gland defect is a bone depression on the lingual surface of the mandible containing salivary gland or fatty soft tissue. The most common location is within the submandibular gland fossa and often close to the inferior border of the mandible. This defect is asymptomatic and generally discovered only incidentally during radiographic examination of the area. This defect also appears as a well-defined, corticated, unilocular radiolucency below the mandibular canal. Although it is not uncommon for this defect to appear as a round or ovoid radiolucency, multilocular radiolucency of these defects is relatively rare. This report presents a case of a developmental salivary gland defect with multilocular radiolucency in a male patient.

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