Category: Pathology | Difficulty: Intermediate | Priority: Core
Long-standing inflammatory lesion at the apex of a tooth, often radiographically visible as a periapical radiolucency, usually associated with a nonvital pulp.
A long-term infection around the tip of a tooth root that may not always hurt but shows on an x-ray.
[[periapical lesion; granuloma; cyst]]
Differentiate granuloma, cyst, and abscess in radiographic interpretation
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