A case of an ameloblastic fibro-odontoma arising from a calcifying odontogenic cyst

Bull Tokyo Dent Coll. 2001 Feb;42(1):51-5. doi: 10.2209/tdcpublication.42.51.

Abstract

This case report describes an ameloblastic fibro-odontoma arising from a calcifying odontogenic cyst (COC) in the mandible of a twenty-three-year old male. The patient was referred to the Department of Oral Surgery, Tokyo Dental College, on March 30th, 2000, complaining of a painful swelling, which had appeared three weeks earlier on his left mandibular molar region. In a pathological view, the lesion was a round cyst the size of a chicken-egg, dark red in color, and surrounded by a thick membrane. The cyst had an epithelium of varying thickness which included many ghost cells and an enamel-like structure on the inside, and a thick wall of connective tissue with an ameloblastic fibro-odontoma on the outside. Enamel organ-like epithelial islands were structured radially in the form of strands with immature dentin. Cytokeratin 19 was strongly immunoreactive in the epithelium of the lesion; osteopontin and osteocalcin reacted in the mesenchymal cells and weakly in the epithelial element of this tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Connective Tissue / pathology
  • Dental Enamel / pathology
  • Dentin / pathology
  • Enamel Organ / pathology
  • Epithelium / pathology
  • Humans
  • Keratins / analysis
  • Male
  • Mandibular Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Mesoderm / pathology
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology*
  • Odontogenic Cyst, Calcifying / pathology*
  • Odontoma / pathology*
  • Osteocalcin / analysis
  • Osteopontin
  • Phosphoproteins / analysis
  • Sialoglycoproteins / analysis

Substances

  • Phosphoproteins
  • SPP1 protein, human
  • Sialoglycoproteins
  • Osteocalcin
  • Osteopontin
  • Keratins