Talk:Stafne defect

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Rename "Stafne bone cavity" or "Stafne's bone cavity"?

Keywords	No. pubmed hits
"stafne bone cavity"	15
"stafne defect"	9
"stafne bone cyst"	4
"stafne cyst"	3
"stafne bone defect"	9
"stafne's bone cavity"	15
"stafne's defect"	6
"stafne's bone cyst"	4
"stafne's cyst"	2
"stafne's bone defect"	0
"stafne's idiopathic bone cavity"	8
"Lingual salivary gland depression"	0
"lingual mandibular salivary gland depression"	4
"mandibular lingual bone depression"	1

ICD-10 entry: "Stafne cyst". Lesion (talk) 01:33, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I checked White and Pharoah 5th ed., it's pretty much the definative text on oral radiology imo. They call it "Lingual salivary gland depression" (very descriptive) then discuss all the other names in the text. The trend is to go away from the nomenclature based on who 'discovered' it, so I'd go to this name with redirects from Stafne defect (which is what I've always known it by).Ian Furst (talk) 13:29, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

See also WP:MEDMOS#Naming_conventions: "article title should be the scientific or recognised medical name that is most commonly used in recent, high-quality, English-language medical sources, rather than a lay term (unscientific or slang name) or a historical eponym that has been superseded. These alternative names may be specified in the lead." Recently I tried to get the aphthous ulcer page renamed to "recurrent aphthous stomatitis", as I had several textbooks which used that term, but "aphthous stomatitis" was more commonly cited on pubmed, and the article ended up as aphthous stomatitis, which I'm not really bothered by to be honest. Wikipedia also doesn't tend to follow the ICD-10 name often I have noted, even though this is mentioned as a possible source in the MOS. Lesion (talk) 14:01, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Merge proposal

Please discuss the possible merge of Stafne bone cavity into Stafne defect here. (Merge proposal added by @Athikhun.suw: Joyous! | Talk 00:24, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

• Support the merge of these generally duplicate articles. Joyous! | Talk 00:24, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 09:38, 20 May 2023 (UTC)