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Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences
Piracicaba Dental School - UNICAMP
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Vol. 9, No. 2, 2010, pp. 137-141
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Bioline Code: os10030
Full paper language: English
Document type: Case Report
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Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2010, pp. 137-141
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Desmoplastic ameloblastoma - A report of two clinical cases
Laxmana, Anusha Rangare; Gogineni, Subhas Babu; Thomas, Priya Sara & Shetty, Shishir Ram
Abstract
Desmoplastic ameloblastoma is a relatively rare histological variant of ameloblastoma with specific clinical, radiological, and histological features. Although radiographic examination of ameloblastomas usually reveals unilocular or multilocular radiolucency, desmoplastic ameloblastoma may appear as a mixed radiopaque-radiolucent lesion resembling benign fibro-osseous lesions. Histologically, desmoplastic ameloblastoma is characterized by small nests and strands of "compressed" odontogenic epithelium supported by pronounced collagenized stroma. This report describes two cases of desmoplastic ameloblastoma in the anterior maxilla of a female patient and the anterior mandible of a male patient, mimicking clinically as an odontogenic cyst.
Keywords
ameloblastoma, desmoplastic, multilocular, anterior maxilla, anterior mandible
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