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Other Lesions Involving the Maxillofacial Skeleton

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Pathology of the Maxillofacial Bones

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In this Chapter, entities that cannot be classified among one of the categories that are presented in the other Chapters are discussed. They are the following: desmoplastic fibroma, non-ossifying fibroma, melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy, myoepithelioma of bone, chordoma, and epitheloid hemangioendothelioma. These lesions have been selected for this Chapter because they play a role in the differential diagnosis of other bone neoplasms occurring in the maxillofacial skeleton or because they are unique for this site.

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Slootweg, P. (2015). Other Lesions Involving the Maxillofacial Skeleton. In: Pathology of the Maxillofacial Bones. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16961-3_11

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