Multimodular Assessment of a Traumatic Bone Cyst Overlapped with Apical Periodontitis

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Images of the 27-year-old patient presenting an extensive asymptomatic lesion of the right posterior mandible. (a) The panoramic radiograph shows a well-defined unilocular osteolytic lesion with sclerotic margins located between the two molar teeth and superimposed on the alveolar inferior nerve. (b) The periapical radiograph of the first molar depicting inadequate root canal treatment with signs of perforation in the apical third of the distal root involved in the osteolytic lesion. (c) B-mode ultrasound examination showing a transonic lesion (arrows). (d) Power-Doppler image showing the presence of peripheral vascularity.

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