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Mandible ameloblastic carcinoma of difficult diagnosis: a case report
Author(s) -
Nardis A.C.,
Gonçalves S.,
Nagata G.,
Trierveiler M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
oral surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.156
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1752-248X
pISSN - 1752-2471
DOI - 10.1111/ors.12166
Subject(s) - medicine , radiography , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , radiology , dissection (medical) , lesion , neck dissection , carcinoma , pathology , botany , biology , genus
Abstract Ameloblastic carcinoma is a rare odontogenic neoplasm that exhibits malignant histological features in primary and secondary tumours. This is a case of a 36‐year‐old woman who presented a hard mass in the right inferior jaw, associated with pain and gingival bleeding. The radiography showed a unilocular radiolucent lesion with sclerotic borders, resembling a benign tumour. After the anatomical‐pathological diagnosis of ameloblastic carcinoma, the patient treatment consisted of surgical partial resection of the mandible, neck dissection, followed by reconstruction with a titanium plate. Post‐operative radiotherapy was performed. The diagnosis of ameloblastic carcinoma remains a challenge and this tumour may require extensive surgical sampling or its total removal to establish the histological diagnosis.