CASE REPORT

 

Desmoplastic ameloblastoma - a report of two clinical cases

 

 

Anusha Rangare Laxmana^I; Subhas Babu Gogineni ^II; Priya Sara Thomas^I; Shishir Ram Shetty^III

^IMDS, Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, A.B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
^IIMDS, Professor and Head of the Depto of Oral Medicine and Radiology, A.B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
^IIIMDS, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, A.B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

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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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Correspondence to:
Anusha Rangare Laxmana
Department of Oral Medicine and radiology
A.B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences,
Mangalore
575018, Karnataka, India.
E-mail: dr.anusharl@gmail.com

Received for publication: April 15, 2010
Accepted: June 16, 2010