Open AccessCalcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor (Pindborg tumor)
Author(s) -
Neeraj Singh,
Sharad Sahai,
Shailendra Singh,
Smita Singh
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
national journal of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-3418
pISSN - 0975-5950
DOI - 10.4103/0975-5950.94489
Subject(s) - medicine , odontogenic , lesion , pathology , odontogenic tumor , neoplasm , dermatology
The calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor (CEOT) is a rare entity and represents less than 1% of all odontogenic tumors. Dr. J J Pindborg (1958) first described four cases of this unusual lesion; subsequently Shafer et al coined the term Pindborg tumor. This lesion is a locally aggressive benign odontogenic neoplasm arising from epithelial tissue. It occurs most commonly in 4(th)-5(th)-6(th) decade of life and bears no gender predilection. A case of CEOT in a 50-year-old male arising in the left body region is described.