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Fibrous dysplasia of the jaws: Integrating molecular pathogenesis with clinical, radiological, and histopathological features
30 Oct 2018
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Fibrous dysplasia is a non-neoplastic developmental process that affects the craniofacial bones, characterized by painless enlargement as a result of bone substitution by abnormal fibrous tissue. Postzygotic somatic activating mutations in the GNAS1 gene cause fibrous dysplasia and have been extensively investigated, as well as being helpful in the differential diagnosis of the disease. Fibrous dysplasia may...
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