Question 282 · LDEK · Radiological diagnosis
Choose false statement regarding the radiological diagnostics of Stafne defect (SBD):
- A. radiological image requires, first of all, differentiating with metastasis from a focus distant to the mandible.
- B. radiological image usually does not show osteoid seam.
- C. the MRI is considered more efficient than CT in SBD diagnostics.
- D. in a course of SBD, damage of cortical bone from the buccal side may occur, subsequently causing the bone defect to assume tunnel shape.
- E. changes caused by depression of the ectopic salivary gland which usually project to the apical area of the incisors or premolars and thus imitate a periapical or radicular cyst.
Hint
Recall the typical margin of a Stafne cavity below the mandibular canal on a radiograph — is it well corticated or not?
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