Histologic Variants of Ameloblastoma : A case series

Redy Pristanto Putra1, Okky Prasetio2 and David Buntoro Kamadjaja3

1
Resident of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
2
Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Division, Dr. Moh. Soewandhie General Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia
3
Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department,Faculty of Dental Medicine,
UniversitasAirlangga,Surabaya, Indonesia
redypristanto@gmail.com, okkyprasetio@gmail.com, david-b-k@fkg.unair.ac.id

Abstract
Ameloblastoma is the second most common intraosseous benign odontogenic tumor usually affecting the
posterior region of mandible, is slowly growing, locally invasive, epithelial odontogenic of the jaw with a high rate to recurrence. This is a lesion
whose clinical and radiographical features are similar to all the variants, and a definitive diagnosis is achieved by histopathology only.
Ameloblastoma has histologicall patterns, these pattern are follicular, plexiform, acanthomatous and granular cell. other less common
histological variants are clear cell and desmoplastic cells. Variants with more than one histological pattern for the same ameloblastoma could show,
depending on the direction and degree of differentiation of tumor cells. Here we present a serial case with with more than one type of histologic
variants of conventional ameloblastoma seen.

Keyword :Ameloblastom,Variants,histological pattern