Fibrous dysplasia- A review

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Review Article

Author Details : Omar. A. Rageh

Volume : 2, Issue : 4, Year : 2016

Article Page : 231-236

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Abstract

Objective: To collected and concluded a literature review on the diagnosis and management of facial fibrous dysplasia in head and neck region.
Materials and Methods: The review was searched and collected from many sources about fibrous dysplasia, to discussed the all revealing to diseases as clinical features radiographic image, cytogenetic, histopathology, and immunohistochemistry as master keys and parameters for perfect diagnosis of diseases. The database of Literature was collected through used the search of PubMed, Cochrane Library, and scholar Google databases. The keywords used for the search were fibrous dysplasia, physiopathology, radiography histopathology, cytogenetic, and immunohistochemistry. A manual search to many of the reference lists of the identified articles and the authors’ article files and recent reviews was made to finding additional publications. Those studies that showed new features about fibrous dysplasia were included in this review.
Results: In total 20 literature sources were searched and reviewed. Studies that described new features about fibrous dysplasia and illustrated new or advanced modules can conduct to state the diagnosis.
Conclusion: We summarized in this study the keys of diagnosis from clinical criteria to cytogenetic in one papers to make fully covered idea about diseases to facilitate the therapy targeting to diseases.

Keywords:  Fibrous Dysplasia, Physiopathology, Radiography Histopathology, Cytogenetics, and Immunohistochemistry

How to cite : Rageh O A, Fibrous dysplasia- A review. J Oral Med Oral Surg Oral Pathol Oral Radiol 2016;2(4):231-236

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