Clinical and Radiographic Insights into Acathomatous Ameloblastoma of the Mandible

Moitra PN, Bansod S and Dhobley A

Published on: 2024-03-11

Abstract

Ameloblastoma is a slow-growing, locally aggressive neoplasm of enamel organ-type tissue with a high propensity for recurrence. They occur either in the maxilla or mandible at nearly any age, but most frequently are discovered as a painless expansion in the mandible of patients in their 20s-40s, with equal frequencies in males and females. Histopathologically, the follicular and plexiform patterns are the most common. When extensive metaplasia associated with keratin formation occurs in the central portions of the epithelial islands of follicular ameloblastoma, the term acanthomatous is applied. Here we present a case of acanthomatous ameloblastoma in a 30-year-old female patient.