Case report: bilateral nasoalveolar cysts
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1Department of Radiology, Carmel Hospital, Haifa, Israel.
Clinical Radiology
|February 1, 1994
Abstract:
Nasoalveolar cysts are rare developmental cysts arising in the region of the upper lip, just below the ala nasi. We present a case where a woman was suspected of having a local abscess. The microscopic features of this abscess were consistent with nasoalveolar cysts.
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