Contemporary Clinical Dentistry (Jan 2012)

Unusual imaging appearance of unicystic ameloblastoma

  • Lakshmi Kavitha Nadendla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0976-237X.107445
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 4
pp. 475 – 477

Abstract

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Unicystic ameloblastoma (UA) refers to those cystic lesions that show clinical, radiographic, or gross features of a mandibular cyst, but on histologic examination show a typical ameloblastous epithelium lining part of the cystic cavity, with or without luminal and/or mural tumor growth. It accounts for 5-15% of all intraosseous ameloblastomas. We report a case of UA in a 35-year-old female with an unusual large multilocular (tennis racket) appearance on the right body of mandible and illustrate the importance and complexity of differential diagnosis with a brief review of recent literature.

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