Chapter 15 lecture 3 Flashcards
Where do ameloblastomas infiltrate between?
- Cancellous bone
- Lesion periphery
What is the most widely used treatment to remove an ameloblastoma?
-Marginal resection
How far beyond the margins do surgeons take out an ameloblastoma?
-1.5 cm
What does a peripheral ameloblastoma look like?
- Painless
- Nonulcerated
- Sessile gingival lesion
Where are peripheral ameloblastomas most commonly found and are they more on the maxilla or mandible?
-Posterior gingival mucosa on the mandible
What is the recurrence of a peripheral ameloblastoma?
15% the first time almost 0% the second time
Malignant ameloblastomas shows metastatic deposits where most commonly?
-Lung
T/F A malignant ameloblastoma is not cancerous
True
T/F An ameloblastic carcinoma is not cancerous
False
-It is cancerous
When do ameloblastic carcinomas develop?
-Later in life than conventional ameloblastomas and malignant ameloblastomas
A malignant ameloblastoma has histologic features that look similar to what?
-Conventional ameloblastoma
What age does an adenomatoid odontogenic tumor occur in?
-10-20
What gender and area do adenomatoid odontogenic tumors most commonly occur?
- Anterior maxilla
- Females
Adenomatoid odonteginc tumors are asymptomatic and discovered during and XRAY to determine why a tooth hasn’t erupted, what tooth is most often involved?
-Canine
In 75% of adenomatoid odonteogenic tumors the tumor is what?
-Circumscribed, unilocular radiolucency involving the crown of an unerupted tooth
What helps determine and adenmatoid odontgenic tumor from a dentigerous cyst?
- Radiolucency often extends apically past the CEJ
- Snowflake calcifications
What might the lesions look like in an XRAY for and adenomatoid odontgenic tumor?
-Snowflake calcifications
T/F Adenomatoid odontogenic tumors are malignant
False
-They are completely benign