上顎에 齒牙腫을 同伴하여 發生한 GORLIN S CYST의 症例報告

A case report of Gorlin s cyst with odontoma in the maxilla

This cyst was identified by Gorlin in 1962 and the lesion of cyst is unusual in that it has some features of a cyst but also has many characteristics of a solid neoplasm. There is no apparent age or sex predilection of this lesion and the lesion is occurred in the mandible and maxilla similarity without predilection, the lesion reported have been central within bone. Variable amounts of calcified radiopaque material in the lesion is scattered throughout the radiolucency, ranging from tiny flecks to large masses and this lesion sometimes occurs in association with an odontoma. We had met a 18 year-old male patient who was admitted because of C.C. of painless swelling of right maxilla premolar area from 2 months ago. In our clinical examination, we also noted that he had smooth and soft mass involving the maxillary alveolar ridge and muccobuccal fold from the lateral incisor to the 2nd. premolar. As the result of orthopantomogram, we had certained that the lesion had the calcified radiopaque material throughout the radiolucency in the right maxilla. So, we confirmed that the lesion was Gorlin s cyst with odontoma through biopsy result.