Question 133 (part 2) · LDEK · Periapical diseases
Jaw bones, especially mandible, tend to be places for metastases of following cancers: lungs, breast, thyroid, kidneys. Initial stage of metastasis development affecting root apexes is confusingly similar to:
- A. dentigerous cyst.
- B. true radicular cyst.
- C. cementoma.
- D. compound odontoma.
- E. periapical granuloma.
Hint
Early metastases are osteolytic with irregular, ill-defined borders; which common periapical lesion also lacks a sharp, corticated outline?
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