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Volume 3 Issue 1 (January - March, 2015)

Case Reports

GRANULAR CELL AMELOBLASTOMA OF THE JAW- A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Satish Kumar Bansal, Gopal Singal, Umesh Chhabra, Sandeep Kumar Goyal, Yudhvir Singh Geetanjali Gupta

Ameloblastoma is a neoplasm of odontogenic epithelium, especially of enamel organ-type tissue that has not undergone differentiation to the point of hard tissue formation. It accounts for approximately 10% of all tumors originating from gnathic bones. It exhibits diverse microscopic patterns which occurs either singly or in combination with other patterns. Granular cell ameloblastoma is a rare condition, accounting for 3.5% of all ameloblastoma cases that shows marked transformation in the cytoplasm of tumor cells, which are usually stellate reticulum like cells. It is also considered an aggressive variant of ameloblastoma with potential recurrence and malignant transformation. This article describes a case of granular cell variant of ameloblastoma affecting a 50-year old male.

 
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