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Intraoral view showing limited jaw movements with mild cortical plate expansion.
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Provisional diagnosis of carcinoma of mandible and differential diagnosis of space infection, chronic osteomyelitis, and metastatic lesion were considered (Figure 1).
Preoperative orthopantomogram (arrow) showing diffuse irregular multilocular radiolucency in the left side of the lower jaw extending from parasymphysis region to the ramus of the mandible.
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Orthopantomogram (OPG) (Figure 2) view showed an extensive multilocular radiolucency in the left mandibular body extending from 33,34 region posteriorly to the ramus of mandible suggestive of malignancy.
Microscopic image of the lesion exhibiting islands of tumor calls invading the underlying connective tissue stroma (H & E stain at 10x magnification; (a)) with features of nuclear and cytoplasmic atypia (H & E stain at 40x magnification; (b)).
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The tumor cells showed no contact with the normal appearing overlying mucosa (Figures 3(a) and 3(b)).