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case_images: Patient with the lesion protruding out of the mouth
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case_images: This was a case report of a 30-year-old Nigerian seen at the Oral and Maxillofacial Clinic of the Dental and Maxillofacial Department of the Federal Medical Centre Lokoja with a 4 years history of the right mandibular swelling, which was initially slow growing and painless causing difficulty in eating [Figure 1]. It was firm in consistency [Figure 1].
case_images: The patient intraoperative after resection and disarticulation
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case_images: F2
case_images: After a difficult intubation (Nasotracheal), she had resection with disarticulation (right temporomandibular joint disarticulation with resection at 36) via an extended Risdon incision and lip split approach [Figure 2].
case_images: Photomichrograph of chondromyxoid fibroma H and E, x100. It shows chondroid and fibromyxoid areas
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case_images: F3
case_images: The histology confirmed CMF [Figure 3].
case_images: The patient 5 days after surgery and before suture removal
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case_images: F4
case_images: The patient is being follow-up and is doing well [Figure 4].