Mandible & maxilla

Benign odontogenic tumors

Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor



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Nat Pernick, M.D.
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Definition / general
  • Also called adenoameloblastoma
  • Relatively uncommon
  • 70% in teens, remainder from 5 to 50 years, more common in females
  • Associated with unerupted canine tooth
  • Slow growing, few / no symptoms
Sites
  • Incisor-cuspid area of maxilla
Radiology description
  • Well defined unilocular lesion surrounding crown of unerupted or impacted tooth
  • May be cystic or expansive but not invasive
Case reports
Treatment
  • Enucleation; does not recur
Gross description
  • Rounded, well defined fibrous capsule, cystic with focal solid areas
  • Crown of tooth usually projects into cystic cavity
Microscopic (histologic) description
  • Well circumscribed, central proliferation of ductlike epithelium surrounding small foci of calcification
  • Epithelium may have rosettes, trabecular or cribriform patterns
  • Columnar type cells with basal nuclei and clear cytoplasm may resemble pre-ameloblasts
  • Eosinophilic fibrillar material is present between tumor cells and within ductlike structures
  • Rarely melanin deposition
Microscopic (histologic) images

Contributed by Kelly Magliocca, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor

Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor



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Electron microscopy description
  • Glandular differentiation
Differential diagnosis
Board review style question #1
Which of the following scenarios represents the most common set of clinical features associated with the follicular variant of adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT)?

  1. Anterior mandible, unerupted central incisor tooth, elderly male
  2. Anterior maxilla, unerupted canine tooth, teenage female
  3. Posterior mandible, unerupted first molar tooth, middle age female
  4. Posterior maxilla, unerupted premolar tooth, teenage male
Board review style answer #1
B. Anterior maxilla, unerupted canine tooth, teenage female

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