Volume 25, Issue 117, November 2021

Medial pterygoid muscle traumatic myositis ossificans: A case report from Saudi Arabia

Emad A Khan

Oral Diagnostic Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Traumatic myositis ossificans or myositis ossificans traumatica (MOT) is a heterotopic bone formation within a muscle (or group of muscles) and soft tissues. It occurs usually in deep muscles. Maxillofacial muscles including muscles of mastication are rarely affected. We report a lesion in a 49-year-old lady with a chief complaint of pain and some limitation in mouth opening and a history of trauma. Radiological examination using CBCT shows TMJ osteoarthritic changes and a lesion in the area of medial pterygoid muscle, which was diagnosed as MOT and managed conservatively.

Keywords: Traumatic, Myositis, Ossificans, Heterotopic, Bone formation

Medical Science, 2021, 25(117), 2744-2747

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