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Rare disease
Ameloblastic carcinoma: a rare entity
  1. Veena Maheshwari1,
  2. Manoranjan Varshney1,
  3. Kiran Alam1,
  4. Anshu Jain1,
  5. Mohammed Azfar Siddiqui2,
  6. Kavita Gaur1,
  7. Aastha Gupta1
  1. 1Department of Pathology, J.N. Medical College, Aligarh, India
  2. 2Department of Radiodiagnosis, J.N. Medical College, Aligarh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kavita Gaur, kavgaur{at}gmail.com

Summary

Ameloblastic carcinoma is a rare aggressive malignant epithelial odontogenic tumour seen in a wide range of age group with no sex predilection. Patient usually presents with a rapidly enlarging swelling. It usually involves the posterior portion of the mandible. Treatment of choice is surgical removal of tumour followed by radiotherapy. We present a case of ameloblastic carcinoma in a 35-year-old man.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.01.2011.3678

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