N A Said-al-Naief, H Lumerman, M Ramer, W Kopp, G J Kringstein, F Persenchino, R Torno
The keratoameloblastoma is a rare histologic variant of the ameloblastoma. Review of the English language literature revealed five case reports of keratoameloblastoma. We report the sixth case of this tumor. The tumor developed in the right posterior maxilla of a 26-year-old African-American man and demonstrated aggressive clinical behavior, analogous to conventional ameloblastoma. The initial biopsy specimen showed extensive cyst formation, which histologically resembled odontogenic keratocyst. However, the lining epithelium varied in thickness and there was separation and edema between the basal cells and the rest of the epithelium...
November 1997: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics