1986 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 152-155
A case of osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis in an eleven-year-old girl presented as a hard swelling extending from the left body to the ascending ramus of the mandible on the outer surface of the buccal cortex. The lesion was examined histopathologically, including microradiographic and histochemical studies. Newly formed bone of the cortex consisted of immature, woven bone with abundant osteoid. Abundant alkaline phosphatase was noted in fibroblasts between bone trabeculae as well as in osteoblasts adjacent to immature bone trabeculae. These findings indicate considerable osteoblastic activity with lesion of proliferative periostitis.
