Shear's Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions

Paul M. Speight

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781119354994
• eBook ISBN:
  9781119354949
• Edition: 5
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Oral Health & Surgery

Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions

The new Fifth Edition of Shear's Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions delivers a comprehensive treatise on cysts that arise in the oral and maxillofacial tissues. It is the gold-standard on oral and maxillofacial cysts for professionals working in head and neck pathology, oral medicine, head and neck surgery, and radiology.

The book has been completely revised and rewritten to enable readers to easily access key facts and important information that will assist in diagnosis and management of these lesions. The text has been updated, with increased emphasis on histopathology and differential diagnosis, and with a new layout that makes information more accessible to students and trainees at all levels, as well as to non-specialist clinicians and general pathologists faced with an individual lesion that requires diagnosis and management. Key features include:

• A new chapter that reviews the pathogenesis of cysts and presents an approach to diagnosis, including specific radiological and histological features that have diagnostic utility in each cyst type
• More detailed considerations of the classification and terminology of cysts including discussion of the historical background
• Enhanced data presentation with new tables and illustrations, and increased numbers of photomicrographs and radiology images
• Detailed consideration of histological and radiological differential diagnosis
• Comprehensive reviews of the pathology and pathogenesis of each cyst type including molecular and genetic studies that have advanced our understanding
• The use of boxes that summarise key features and make information easily accessible to readers at all levels

Shear's Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions Fifth Edition is a valuable resource for specialists and trainees in oral and maxillofacial pathology, oral medicine, and head and neck surgery, as well as radiologists seeking a comprehensive understanding of oral and maxillofacial cysts.

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Classification and Frequency of Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions

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CHAPTER MENU

• Classifications
• Cysts of the Jaws
  • Odontogenic Cysts
    • Odontogenic Cysts of Inflammatory Origin
    • Odontogenic Cysts of Developmental Origin
  • Non‐odontogenic Cysts and Pseudocysts
    • Non‐odontogenic Cysts of the Jaws
    • Pseudocysts of the Jaws
• Cysts of the Salivary and Minor Mucous Glands
  • Cysts of the Major and Minor Salivary Glands
  • Cysts of the Maxillary Sinus
• Developmental Cysts of the Head and Neck
• Frequency of Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions

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There is no single satisfactory classification of cysts of the head and neck region. In part this is because terminology varies across the world, but also because classification systems may be developed to serve different purposes. Some authors have tried to subdivide lesions into multiple variants based on histological or clinical features, but this has little clinical utility in terms of planning management. Detailed classifications that include variants are nevertheless useful for research, and occasionally a reported variant may eventually emerge as a new entity. A well‐known example of this is the reporting of an orthokeratinised variant of the odontogenic keratocyst (Wright 1981 ), which over time was shown to have distinctive clinicopathological features and is now recognised as an entity – the orthokeratinised odontogenic cyst. Other variants, however, such as the bay or pocket variant of the radicular cyst, have little bearing on clinical management and are of academic interest only. There is a tendency for classifications to be overcomplicated by pathologists, who often describe subtle histological variations as new ‘entities’. The most useful classifications should be simple, should use globally recognised terminology, and should be easy to use and relevant for clinicians who treat the lesions. A straightforward uniform nomenclature facilitates communication between clinical specialties and enables precise reporting of lesions for statistical and research purposes.

International standards for classifications were first developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), which set up a global project for the histological classification of tumours in 1952 (reviewed by Sobin 1971 ). The project involved collecting samples of lesions that were reviewed by groups of international experts, who agreed a uniform nomenclature and established practical and clinically relevant diagnostic criteria. The first classification of cysts of the jaws was published in 1971 in Histological Typing of Odontogenic Tumours, Jaw Cysts and Allied Lesions (Pindborg and Kramer 1971 ). This first edition was deliberately inclusive and provided a comprehensive classification of jaw lesions so that all neoplasms and cysts of the odontogenic tissues could be considered in...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface to the Fifth Edition
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Classification and Frequency of Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions
• 2 General Considerations
• 3 Radicular Cyst
• 4 Inflammatory Collateral Cysts
• 5 Dentigerous Cyst
• 6 Eruption Cyst
• 7 Odontogenic Keratocyst
• 8 Lateral Periodontal Cyst and Botryoid Odontogenic Cyst
• 9 Gingival Cysts
• 10 Glandular Odontogenic Cyst
• 11 Calcifying Odontogenic Cyst
• 12 Orthokeratinised Odontogenic Cyst
• 13 Nasopalatine Duct Cyst
• 14 Nasolabial Cyst
• 15 Cysts of the Salivary and Minor Mucous Glands
• 16 Surgical Ciliated Cyst
• 17 Pseudocysts of the Jaws
• 18 Developmental Cysts
• Bibliography
• Index
• End User License Agreement