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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery > Volume 19(3); 1976 > Article
Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1976;19(3): 65-8.
A Case of Impacted 3rd Molar Tooth Associated with Osteochondroma in the Maxillary Antrum
Seung Ryong Sul, MD, and Yoon Do Cho, MD
Department of Otolaryngology, Busan Armed Forces General Hospital, Korea
上顎洞內 骨軟骨腫을 동반한 埋沒齒牙의 1例
薛勝龍 · 趙潤道
國軍釜山統合病院 耳鼻咽候科
ABSTRACT

A case of impacted 3rd molar tooth which associated with osteochondroma developed in the right maxillary antrum is to be presented with brief literatures. A 44 year-old female patient visited to our department of Busan Armed Forces General Hospital with complaints of swelling and tenderness of the right cheek. P.N.S. X-ray of the right maxillary antrum showed an adult thumb sized hard mass and tooth like density in the right antrum, but bony destruction sign was not seen. The 3rd molar tooth impacted in the right maxillary antrum and the tumor mass encroached on the anterior wall of the right maxillary antrum were all removed by Caldwell-Luc's procedure. The histopathological finding of the tumor mass was confirmed as osteochondroma. 

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