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Correo Científico Médico
On-line version ISSN 1560-4381
Abstract
CARBALLO SANTOS, Mercedes; PUPO SUAREZ, Rodolfo; CRUZ ROCH, José Luís and CRUZ PINO, Yamily. Presentation of a Patient with Bone Craniofacial Fibrous Dysplasia. CCM [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.3, pp. 564-570. ISSN 1560-4381.
A patient who came to Francisco de Miranda Center, Venezuela, in June 2012 with a monostotic craniofacial fibrous dysplasia diagnosis was presented. The case was a 55- year -old patient with a facial asymmetry due to a volume increase of the upper maxillary and lower left maxillary and zygomatic of this side. In physical examination an increase volume of the sixth and tenth costal arc and deformation of dorsolumbar spinal column was found. A tomographic study was performed that revealed lesions of fibrous dysplasia in other levels, costal arcs, dorsolumbar spinal column and left femur that showed a poliostotic craniofacial fibrous dysplasia
Keywords : craniofacial fibrous dysplasia; axial tomography; patient.