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Masseteric hypertrophy?: preliminary report
J P Newton1, J G Cowpe, I J McClure
1Unit of Comprehensive Restorative Care, Dental School, Dundee, UK.
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|November 30, 1999
Abstract:
We report radiological and histological investigations of a patient who presented with the masseteric hypertrophy. Sections of the patient's masseter muscles were also investigated using a series of histological techniques. The histological and morphometric analysis of the patient's masseter muscle showed numerous small fibres, which indicated that the masseteric enlargement was not the result of classic fibre hypertrophy. We suggest that the use of the term 'hypertrophy' in this condition may be misleading.