The importance of clinical features and computed tomographic findings in numb chin syndrome::A report of two cases

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 550-554

  Yoshioka, Izumi ^a   Shiiba, Shunji ^a   Tanaka, Tatsurou ^a   Nishikawa, Takeshi ^a   Sakamoto, Eiji ^a   Kito, Shinji ^a   Oda, Masafumi ^a   Wakasugi Sato, Mao ^a   Matsumoto Takeda, Shinobu ^a   Kagawa, Shigeyuki ^a   Makanishi, Osamu ^a   Tominaga, Kazuhiro ^a   Morimoto, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Jaws; Malignancy; Metastasis; Numb chin syndrome; Panoramic radiograph; Paresthesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650156052     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2009.0224     Document Type: Article

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