Case Report
Decompression of a Large Periapical Lesion: A Case Report of 4-Year Follow-Up
Table 1
Distribution of chronic periapical lesions as reported in various studies.
| Study | Granuloma (%) | Cyst (%) | Abscess (%) | Other (%) |
| Bhaskar, 1966 [6] | 48.0 | 42.0 | — | 10.0 | Nair et al., 1996 [7] | 50.0 | 15.0 | 35.0 | — | Ricucci et al., 2006 [14] | 61.4 | 17.5 | 21.1 | — | Becconsall-Ryan et al., 2010 [15] | 59.7 | 29.2 | — | — | Love and Firth, 2009 [4] | 77.0 | 18.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | Koivisto et al., 2012 [16] | 40.4 | 33.1 | | 26.5 | Saraf et al., 2014 [5] | 66.7 | 10.0 | 6.7 | — | Çalışkan et al., 2016 [8] | 72.0 | 21.5 | 4.3 | 2.2 |
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