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Aggressive Nasopalatine Duct Cyst With Complete Destruction of Palatine Bone
Aggressive Nasopalatine Duct Cyst With Complete Destruction of Palatine Bone
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Case Report
Aggressive nasopalatine duct cyst with
complete destruction of palatine bone
D. Sankar, Veerabahu Muthusubramanian, J. A. Nathan, Ravi Sankar Nutalapati,
Yasmin Mary Jose, Y. Naren kumar
Received : 06-04-16
Review completed : 28-04-16
Accepted : 06-05-16 KEY WORDS: Cone beam computed tomography, enucleation, nasopalatine duct cyst
DOI: How to cite this article: Sankar D, Muthusubramanian V, Nathan JA, Nutalapati
RS, Jose YM, kumar YN. Aggressive nasopalatine duct cyst with complete
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