Mandible & maxilla

Benign bone tumors

Desmoplastic fibroma



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Nat Pernick, M.D.
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Definition / general
  • Rare, mean 23 years, range 1 - 75 years
  • Intraosseous component of soft tissue fibromatosis
  • May be due to local trauma; may be part of Gardner syndrome
  • Benign, but up to 35% recur, does not metastasize
Case reports
Treatment
  • Wide local excision
Gross description
  • Firm, rubbery, white, nonencapsulated, fibrous appearing lesion
Microscopic (histologic) description
  • Poorly demarcated lesion with interlacing or fascicular pattern of mature fibrous tissue composed of small fibroblasts with no / minimal mitotic activity and abundant collagenous stroma
  • No osteoid, no epithelial rests, rare multinucleated giant cells
Microscopic (histologic) images

Contributed by Kelly Magliocca, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Desmoplastic fibroma

Desmoplastic fibroma

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