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Clinicopathologic Study Of Odontogenic Keratocysts In Singapore And Malaysia, W.C. Ngeow, R. B. Zain, J. F. Yeo, W. L. Chai
Clinicopathologic Study Of Odontogenic Keratocysts In Singapore And Malaysia, W.C. Ngeow, R. B. Zain, J. F. Yeo, W. L. Chai
Wei Cheong Ngeow
This was a retrospective study of odontogenic keratocysts in people from the Singapore-Malaysian region. The purpose of this study was to present the clinicopathologic features of odontogenic keratocysts in the Oriental population and to compare these data with those from other reported studies. Biopsy records from 1981 to 1992 of 61 cases of odontogenic keratocysts from patients in Malaysia and Singapore showed that 42.6% of patients were female and 57.4% of patients were male. Among patients with cysts, 75.4% were Chinese, 6.6% were Malays, 9.8% were Indians and 8.2% were other ethnic groups. The mean age of these patients was …