Bilateral mandibular osteomyelitis mimicking periapical cysts in a patient with sickle cell anemia

• Main Authors: Juliane Pirágine Araújo (Author), Ana Maria Hoyos Cadavid (Author), Celso Augusto Lemos (Author), Marilia Trierveiler (Author), Fabio Abreu Alves (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a hemoglobin disorder that occurs more commonly among Afro-descendants. The authors report the case of a 28-year-old Afro-descendent male patient with the diagnosis of homozygotic sickle cell disease (SCD) referred for evaluation of mandibular lesions. The patient's...