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case_images: 57-year-old female with cerebrovascular accident who presented with sudden onset of loss of taste and tongue deviation. Panoramic radiograph showing widening of the right mandibular canal (arrows).
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case_images: There was also loss of cortication of the mandibular canal [Figure 1].
case_images: 57-year-old female with cerebrovascular accident who presented with sudden onset of loss of taste and tongue deviation. Cone-beam computed tomography image showing various tomographic views. (a and b) Sagittal view showing enlargement of the mandibular canal from the mandibular foramen (white arrow) toward the mental foramen (white arrow). (c) Coronal view comparing the size of the mandibular canal bilaterally (white arrow: Right canal, black arrow: Left canal).
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case_images: 57-year-old female with cerebrovascular accident who presented with sudden onset of loss of taste and tongue deviation. Magnetic resonance imaging showing well-defined T1-hypointense and T2-hyperintense lesion at the right masticator space invaginating into the right mandibular canal at axial section (white arrow).
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case_images: The MRI scan showed well-defined T1-hypointense and T2-hyperintense lesion at the right masticator space invaginating into the right mandibular canal measuring 2.6 cm x 1.7 cm x 3.4 cm (AP x W x L) [Figure 3].
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case_images: 60-year-old female with squamous cell carcinoma who presented with left lower lip hypoesthesia. Panoramic radiograph showing ill-defined widening of the left mandibular canal (white arrows).
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case_images: F4
case_images: The panoramic radiograph [Figure 4] showed multiple root treated teeth with complex crown and bridgework.
case_images: 60-year-old female with squamous cell carcinoma who presented with left lower lip hypoesthesia. Sagittal view of the computed tomography scan showing cortical irregularity with periosteal reaction of the medial aspect of the left mandible (white arrow).
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case_images: There was cortical irregularity with periosteal reaction of the medial aspect of the left mandible [Figure 5].
case_images: 60-year-old female with squamous cell carcinoma who presented with left lower lip hypoesthesia. Axial view of the magnetic resonance imaging showing the mass extending to the left angle of mandible and into the mandibular canal (white arrows).
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case_images: The mass extended down to the left angle of mandible with extension along the mandibular canal [Figure 6].
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case_images: 86-year-old male with reduced taste sensation of the left lower lip and tongue. Panoramic radiograph showing widening of the left mandibular canal (white arrows).
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case_images: F7
case_images: A panoramic radiograph was taken and noted widening of the left mandibular canal measuring 5.1 mm compared to the right side which measures 2.5 mm [Figure 7].
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case_images: 34-year-old male with left recurrent pericoronitis. Panoramic radiograph showing "double mandibular canal" (white arrows).
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case_images: F8
case_images: 34-year-old male with left recurrent pericoronitis. Sagittal section of the cone-beam computed tomography showing a single mandibular canal (white arrow).
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case_images: F9
case_images: The CBCT [Figure 9] showed that the canal is a single mandibular canal and not a bifid canal as appeared in the panoramic radiograph.