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Preoperative horizontal MRI scan indicating the location (white arrow) of the adenocarcinoma of the right palatomaxillary region. [L]: left side; [R]: right side; [A]: anterior aspect; [P]: posterior aspect.
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A 74-year-old, male ASA-III patient presented with an adenocarcinoma of the right palatomaxillary region (Figure 1) and was scheduled for maxillectomy for tumor excision and placement of an obturator prosthesis.
The expelled bone fragment and a cm-scale. The bone fragment has the dimension of 4 x 2 cm.
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At closer inspection of the expelled bloody mass, we identified a clot-covered bone fragment of about 4 x 2 cm size (Figure 2).