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Hybrid Ameloblastoma of the Maxilla: A Puzzling Pathology
Ameloblastomas are slow growing, locally invasive, benign odontogenic tumors of an epithelial origin, accounting for approximately 1% of all oral tumors. A 40-year-old man presented with a chief complaint of a swelling over the left side of his face of 4 years’ duration. On examination, gross facial...
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Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912654/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27365557 |
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author | Lakshmi, Chintamaneni Raja Bhavana, Sujana Mulk Nallamilli, Sai Madhavi Prabhat, Meka Poorna Venkata Sarat, Gummadapu Anuradha, Chennupati |
author_facet | Lakshmi, Chintamaneni Raja Bhavana, Sujana Mulk Nallamilli, Sai Madhavi Prabhat, Meka Poorna Venkata Sarat, Gummadapu Anuradha, Chennupati |
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description | Ameloblastomas are slow growing, locally invasive, benign odontogenic tumors of an epithelial origin, accounting for approximately 1% of all oral tumors. A 40-year-old man presented with a chief complaint of a swelling over the left side of his face of 4 years’ duration. On examination, gross facial asymmetry was detected, and a well-defined swelling was noted intraorally involving the left maxilla medially from the mid palatal raphe and obliterating the buccal vestibule laterally. The swelling was non-tender and exhibited dual consistencies: firm in the palate and cystic in the vestibular region. Computed tomography revealed a multilocular radiolucency, which involved the left maxilla, encroached into the left maxillary sinus and the nasal complex, and caused bony erosion. Early diagnosis and treatment are the key tools in managing ameloblastomas, failure of which may lead to a significant deterioration of the prognosis and an increased recurrence rate. Uncommon variants of ameloblastomas have been gaining interest recently. To date, 25 cases of hybrid ameloblastomas have been documented in the scientific literature. We present an extremely rare hybrid type of the ameloblastoma with combined follicular, cystic, acanthomatous, and desmoplastic variants, which render it the first of its kind to have ever been reported. |
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spelling | pubmed-49126542016-07-01 Hybrid Ameloblastoma of the Maxilla: A Puzzling Pathology Lakshmi, Chintamaneni Raja Bhavana, Sujana Mulk Nallamilli, Sai Madhavi Prabhat, Meka Poorna Venkata Sarat, Gummadapu Anuradha, Chennupati Iran J Med Sci Case Report Ameloblastomas are slow growing, locally invasive, benign odontogenic tumors of an epithelial origin, accounting for approximately 1% of all oral tumors. A 40-year-old man presented with a chief complaint of a swelling over the left side of his face of 4 years’ duration. On examination, gross facial asymmetry was detected, and a well-defined swelling was noted intraorally involving the left maxilla medially from the mid palatal raphe and obliterating the buccal vestibule laterally. The swelling was non-tender and exhibited dual consistencies: firm in the palate and cystic in the vestibular region. Computed tomography revealed a multilocular radiolucency, which involved the left maxilla, encroached into the left maxillary sinus and the nasal complex, and caused bony erosion. Early diagnosis and treatment are the key tools in managing ameloblastomas, failure of which may lead to a significant deterioration of the prognosis and an increased recurrence rate. Uncommon variants of ameloblastomas have been gaining interest recently. To date, 25 cases of hybrid ameloblastomas have been documented in the scientific literature. We present an extremely rare hybrid type of the ameloblastoma with combined follicular, cystic, acanthomatous, and desmoplastic variants, which render it the first of its kind to have ever been reported. Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences 2016-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4912654/ /pubmed/27365557 Text en Copyright: © Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Lakshmi, Chintamaneni Raja Bhavana, Sujana Mulk Nallamilli, Sai Madhavi Prabhat, Meka Poorna Venkata Sarat, Gummadapu Anuradha, Chennupati Hybrid Ameloblastoma of the Maxilla: A Puzzling Pathology |
title | Hybrid Ameloblastoma of the Maxilla: A Puzzling Pathology |
title_full | Hybrid Ameloblastoma of the Maxilla: A Puzzling Pathology |
title_fullStr | Hybrid Ameloblastoma of the Maxilla: A Puzzling Pathology |
title_full_unstemmed | Hybrid Ameloblastoma of the Maxilla: A Puzzling Pathology |
title_short | Hybrid Ameloblastoma of the Maxilla: A Puzzling Pathology |
title_sort | hybrid ameloblastoma of the maxilla: a puzzling pathology |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912654/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27365557 |
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