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  • Title: Multiple oral radiopaque masses leading to Gardner's syndrome diagnosis.
    Author: Costa AG, Costa RO, de Oliveira LR, Grossmann S.
    Journal: Gen Dent; 2013 Jul; 61(4):e12-4. PubMed ID: 23823353.
    Abstract:
    Gardner's syndrome, an autosomal dominant syndrome, is linked to familial adenomatosis polyposis (FAP), which is known mainly as a colorectal disease. FAP also presents extracolonically as intestinal polyposis, multiple osteomas, cutaneous cysts, or fibromas. This article reports the case of a 66-year-old white woman who was referred to the Oral Medicine Clinic, School of Dentistry, Universidade Vale do Rio Verde, Brazil, for evaluation of multiple sclerotic, asymptomatic masses in the jaws that were observed in a routine periapical radiographic exam by a dentist. The patient presented with intestinal poliposis, periosteal osteoma in the face, and fibromas and multiple endosteal osteomas in the maxilla, which are indications of Gardner's syndrome. The clinical differential diagnosis included multiple buccal exostoses, idiopathic osteosclerosis, cemento-osseous dysplasias, multiple odontomas, osteomas, and Gardner's syndrome. Patients with a suspected diagnosis of Gardner's syndrome should be referred to a dermatologist, have a colonoscopy performed, and be followed up by a dentist.
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