An Unusual Case of Fibroid Ossifying of the Maxilla in a Male Child

Ossifying fibroid is a tumor proliferation at the expense of maxillary bones belonging to the complex group of non-odontogenic tumors, having membranous ossification. It accounts for 2.5% of bone tumors and 7% of benign tumors of the head and neck. The objective was to report our diagnostiwc and therapeutic experience through a clinical observation case and literature review. It is a patient of a 7-year-old boy, in the ENT department of the Gabriel Toure University Hospital for painful swelling of the right hemiface associated with a noticeable asymmetry of the face evolving for 04 years. Physical examination revealed a swelling of the right hemiface, extending from the ipsilateral jugal and zygomatic region to the suborbital region, of hard consistency, fixed in relation to the superficial planes and deep, not hot measuring 10 cm over its large diameter, painful with a bulge of the hard ipsilateral palate and a reduction in the lumen of the right nasal cavity. Maxillofacial CT showed a very limited bone density mass that did not take the contrast medium. The histopathological examination after right partial maxillectomy under GA was in favor of FO. Postoperative follow-up was favorable after 04 years of follow-up without recurrence.