Case Reports in Dentistry (Jan 2013)

Papilliferous Keratoameloblastoma: An Extremely Rare Case Report

  • Neeta Mohanty,
  • Varun Rastogi,
  • Satya Ranjan Misra,
  • Susant Mohanty

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/706128
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2013

Abstract

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Odontogenic tumors develop in the jaw bones from the odontogenic tissue-oral epithelium in tooth germ, enamel organ, dental papilla, reduced enamel epithelium, remnants of Hertwig’s root sheath or dental lamina, and so forth. Hence, a bewildering variety of tumors are encountered in the maxilla and mandible. Ameloblastoma is the second most common odontogenic neoplasm after odontomes, and it has numerous clinical and histologic variants. We report a very rare histologic variant: the papilliferous keratoameloblastoma which is the fifth reported case in the English literature.