Nitin Agarwal¹ , Debanti Giri² , Abhishek  Sinha³ , Sunita  Srivastava⁴ , Ruchika  K.  Prasad⁵

1. Professor & Head, Dept of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Raebareily Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2. Post graduate student, Dept of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Raebareily Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
3. Abhishek Sinha, Reader, Dept of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Raebareily Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
4. Sunita Srivastava, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Raebareily Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
5. Senior Lecturer, Dept of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Raebareily Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Author    Correspondence author
International Journal of Clinical Case Reports, 2015, Vol. 5, No. 42   doi: 10.5376/ijccr.2015.05.0042
Received: 16 Sep., 2015    Accepted: 13 Oct., 2015    Published: 28 Oct., 2015

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Agarwal N., Giri D., Sinha A., Srivastava S., Prasad R.K. and Nayyar A.S., 2015, Odontogenic Keratocyst: An Unusual Clinical Presentation, International Journal of Clinical Case Reports, 5(42) 1-6 (doi: 10.5376/ijccr.2015.05.0042)

The odontogenic keratocyst (OKC) is a developmental cyst of the jaws of epithelial origin. This lesion is commonly found in the ascending ramus and posterior mandible, and can become quite large due to its rapid growth and its extension into the adjacent structures. Herein, we are reporting a case of odontogenic keratocyst involving the anterior mandible which was mimicking other cysts and tumors which occur in that region more frequently. On closer view into the case, the lesion was proved to be an OKC. The lesion was successfully treated by complete enucleation. Because of the uniqueness of this case, the clinical, radiological, and histological features of this cyst/tumor are discussed in this article.

Odontogenic Keratocyst; Odontogenic Cysts; Keratocystic Odontogenic Tumor; Mandible; Bimodal; Carnoy’s solution