Case Report
Bimaxillary Aneurismal Bone Cyst in Patient with End Stage
Renal Disease and Hyperparathyroidism: A Rare Case Report
and Review of the Literature
Sedigheh Bakhtiari,
1
Mahin Bakhshi,
1
Fatemeh Mashhadiabbas,
2
Hasan Mir Mohammad Sadeghi,
3
Zahra Elmi Rankohi,
4
and Somayeh Rahmani
1
1
Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2
Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3
Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4
Oral Medicine Department, Dental School, Gilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
Correspondence should be addressed to Somayeh Rahmani; s.rahmani2011@yahoo.com
Received 13 May 2016; Revised 1 August 2016; Accepted 4 September 2016
Academic Editor: Junichi Asaumi
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Aneurismal bone cyst (ABC) is a rare bony lesion occurring predominantly in long bones. Its jaws’ involvement is uncommon and
the simultaneous involvement of both jaws is very rare. Tis report is about a 27-year-old female experiencing renal failure with
ABC involving her maxilla and mandible. Te progressive lesion was treated surgically and there was no recurrence afer 18 months
of follow-up.
1. Introduction
Te frst clinicopathological description of aneurismal bone
cyst (ABC) was done by Jafe and Lichtenstein in 1942 [1].
ABC is not lined by epithelium and it is not a true cyst.
According to the defnition of the World Health Organization
(WHO), ABC is a benign tumor-like lesion [2]. Te term
“aneurismal” was used to refer to this lesion because of the
“blow-out” efect or afected bone that appears in this type
of lesion [3, 4]. Te most common locations of ABCs are
long bones and the vertebral column. Te frequency of skull
and mandibular occurrence is 4% [5]. Jaws involvement is
uncommon and only 1.9–2% has been reported [1, 6].
ABC has extreme variable clinical presentations; the most
typical feature is the well-defned swelling of sof tissue when
it increases the size of the adjacent bone [3]. As usual,
ABC has a slow growing painless mass until erosion of the
cortical plates occur, thereby showing a rapid growth which
may cause pain. Other clinical presentations are facial defor-
mity, malocclusion, tooth mobility, neurologic symptoms
including dysesthesias and paresthesia, progressive nasal
obstruction due to sinus involvement of the maxillary lesions,
ptosis, diplopia, pathologic fracture, perforation of cortex,
and hearing of bruit if the arterial component is involved
signifcantly [3, 7–9].
Radiographic examination shows a unilocular or multi-
locular radiolucency, ofen with marked cortical expansion
and thinning and the border of lesion may be well defned
or poorly defned. Ballooning or blow-out distention of the
afected bone may be seen.
A frequent histologic feature of ABC is the vascular
form with blood-flled cavernous and sinusoid spaces with
a variable amount of hemosiderin, pigmentation, and giant
cells. Tere are evidences of reactive and woven bone in
connective tissues, as well [3, 4, 6].
In Kalantar Motamedi et al.’s study, from 120 cases of
maxillofacial ABC, only one case had concurrent mandibular
and maxillary ABC [7]. We reported a rare case of bimaxillary
ABC in a patient with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and
hyperparathyroidism.
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Case Reports in Dentistry
Volume 2016, Article ID 7026106, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7026106