Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case

Peripheral odontogenic lesions are considered to be rare within the classification of odontogenic tumors. They share the same microscopic characteristics of their central counterparts. Here, we report an ulcerated mass of the maxillary gingiva that on histopathological examination was diagnosed as p...

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Main Authors: Atarbashi Moghadam, Saede, Mokhtari, Sepideh
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4770137/
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spelling pubmed-47701372016-03-15 Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case Atarbashi Moghadam, Saede Mokhtari, Sepideh Case Report Peripheral odontogenic lesions are considered to be rare within the classification of odontogenic tumors. They share the same microscopic characteristics of their central counterparts. Here, we report an ulcerated mass of the maxillary gingiva that on histopathological examination was diagnosed as peripheral developing odontoma or peripheral ameloblastic fibroodontoma. The diagnosis of this tumor is challenging and may lead to unnecessary treatment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4770137/ /pubmed/26981293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9379017 Text en Copyright © 2016 S. Atarbashi Moghadam and S. Mokhtari. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Atarbashi Moghadam, Saede
Mokhtari, Sepideh
spellingShingle Atarbashi Moghadam, Saede
Mokhtari, Sepideh
Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case
author_facet Atarbashi Moghadam, Saede
Mokhtari, Sepideh
author_sort Atarbashi Moghadam, Saede
title Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case
title_short Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case
title_full Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case
title_fullStr Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case
title_full_unstemmed Peripheral Developing Odontoma or Peripheral Ameloblastic Fibroodontoma: A Rare Challenging Case
title_sort peripheral developing odontoma or peripheral ameloblastic fibroodontoma: a rare challenging case
description Peripheral odontogenic lesions are considered to be rare within the classification of odontogenic tumors. They share the same microscopic characteristics of their central counterparts. Here, we report an ulcerated mass of the maxillary gingiva that on histopathological examination was diagnosed as peripheral developing odontoma or peripheral ameloblastic fibroodontoma. The diagnosis of this tumor is challenging and may lead to unnecessary treatment.
publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate 2016
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4770137/
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