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Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod · Sep 2006
Case ReportsBilateral tonsillolithiasis: a case report.
- Emel Ozcan, Ahmet Ural, Tuğba Koçak Oktemer, and Gökhan Alpaslan.
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Yil Ankara Oral Health Center, Ankara, Turkey.
- Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2006 Sep 1;102(3):e17-8.
AbstractAlthough tonsilloliths are reported to be fairly common, florid cases casting distinct radiopaque shadows on panoramic radiographs are not often reported. This report illustrates such a case as an incidental finding in an asymptomatic 38-year-old female dental patient. Panoramic radiography revealed distinct radiopaque shadows over the ascending rami of the mandible bilaterally. These radiopacities were localized to the palatine tonsils by computerized tomographic inspection. Tonsillectomy was performed and tonsillolithiasis was confirmed by histopathologic examination.
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