Moctezuma-Bravo GS, Díaz de León-Medina R, Rodríguez-Quilantán FJ

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ABSTRACT

Background: the osteosarcomas of the jaws are infrequently tumors. The accelerated bone growthing and the swelling with nervous sensibility alterations are suggestive of malignancy. The diagnosis is established only by the histological study and the standard treatment used is surgery with a poor survival prognosis of only 25 % at five years for those cases with margins free of tumor.
Clinical case: a female with an osteosarcoma of the jaw limited to the anterior left face of the maxillary and malar area without involve of the alveolar bone. A modified maxillectomy was done. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy were given after surgery. At the present, the patient is free of malignancy activity after twelve years of survival.
Conclusions: no matter the systemic chemotherapy in maxillary and jaw osteosarcomas is little effective, the early diagnosis and treatment was the key in the clinical evolution of the patient presented and in who the first elected treatment was surgery.