Table 1.

Central giant cell granulomas described in the literature.

	Shensa, 1978	Tasanen, 1978	Abu-El-Naaj, 2002	Jadu, 2011
Age	15	59	15	31
Gender	M	M	F	M
Symptoms	Asymptomatic	Painless slow growing preauricular swelling	Painless swelling	Painful slow growing preauricular swelling
Imaging type	Panoramic, Laminagraphy	Laminagraphy	Panoramic, CT	Conventional, CT
Imaging features	Well Defined, Radiolucent, expansile	Multilocular tumor	Well defined, corticated, expansile	Well defined, expansile with a granular bone pattern
Management	Enucleation	Resection with costochondral reconstruction	Enucleation	Enucleation then resection after recurrence
Follow-up	N/A	21 Months	6 Months	4 Years