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Abstract
Saccular lesions lined with epithelium and contained within pathologically formed cavities in the jaw; also nonepithelial cysts (pseudocysts) as they apply to the jaw, e.g., traumatic or solitary cyst, static bone cavity, and aneurysmal bone cyst. True jaw cysts are classified as odontogenic or nonodontogenic.
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- Cyst, Jaw
- Cysts, Jaw
- Jaw Cyst
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, blood supply, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, chemistry, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, ultrastructure, urine, veterinary, virology.
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non-neoplastic; coordinate with precoordinated organ/disease term
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Previous Indexing
- Bone Cysts (1966-1979)
- Cysts (1966-1979)
- Jaw Diseases (1967-1979)
- Jaw Neoplasms (1967-1979)
- specific jaw disease
- specific jaw neoplasm
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Jaw Cysts. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007570. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007570
- Jaw Cysts. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysts_of_the_jaws
- Jaw Cysts. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17085172