[Oradlist] Calcifications questions?! - Cone beam images.

[Allan Abuabara]

Dear Colleagues

I have questions regarding a patient, Caucasian, female, 44 years-old,
submitted to cone beam tomography for analysis of the maxilla to implant
planning.

I found an area of calcification in soft tissue. See attached pictures 1-5.
It is located above the ramus of mandible, internally to the zygomatic arch,
between the condyle and coronoid process. It could be a <goog_1221261706480>
phlebolite* (*"a small calcareous concretion formed in a vein")?

The same patient has calcifications in other places (picture 6) - same side.
I think that they represent: salivary calculi (sialolith) from submandibular
gland and paraoral soft tissue calcifications (tonsillolith - calcification
of tonsilar lynphoid tissue)

I want to know the opinion of you.

Thank you for your reply.
-- 
Allan Abuabara

DDS, Specialist in Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology.
Joinville, SC - Brazil.
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