Ameloblastic fibroma

Ameloblastic fibroma is a benign jaw tumor of childhood (up to 25 years).

Properties

• rare
• grows slowly, enlarges the jaw (more often the mandible)
• or
• frequent occurrence in the landscape of canines and molars
• grows centrally in the bone, grows expansively (corticalis often disappear completely)
• sometimes recurring
• on X-ray it looks like a limited brightening
• formed by proliferating epithelium, surrounded by mesenchymal tissue

Microscopy

• islets of cells variously formed in the fine connective tissue (alveolar, branching trees, etc.)
• around sparse reticulum / fine connective tissue
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References

References

• LIŠKA, Karel. Orofaciální patologie. 1. edition. 1983. ISBN 3180840161.