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Swelling of the patient's jaws.
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The boy presented with a painless symmetrical progressive swelling of the jaws (Figure 1).
Panoramic radiograph of the lesion.
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Panoramic radiograph revealed well-defined, multilocular, radiolucent areas involving the mandibular body, angles and both ascending rami, and the maxilla (Figure 2).
Axial and coronal views of lesion in maxilla and mandible.
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There were no cortical breaks, fractures, or periosteal reactions within the jaw bone and extraosseous soft tissue extension (Figures 3 and 4).
Three-dimensional images of the lesion.
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There were no cortical breaks, fractures, or periosteal reactions within the jaw bone and extraosseous soft tissue extension (Figures 3 and 4).
Histopathological evaluation of the lesion.
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Histopathological evaluation of an incisional biopsy of the lesion showed a large number of giant cells with variable size and a variable number of cores in a mesenchymal stroma with oval and fusiform cells (Figure 5).