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The soft tissue mass is seen on the right side of maxillary alveolar crest on intraoral examination.
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Intra oral examination revealed a 2 cm sized, fibrotic, non bleeding mass coinciding with a dense expansion in bone (Figure 1).
Panoramic radiography revealed "sun burst" appearance of tumour on right side of the mandible. The resorption of the apex of left maxillary second molar tooth is also seen in radiograph.
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On the panoramic radiography (Figure 2), the lesion was seen as extending to tuber maxilla distally and to maxillary sinus coronally.
Microscopic examination of tumoral tissue (HE and x 40).
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The second histopathologic examination revealed osteoblastic osteosarcoma (Figure 3).