Sana Rasheed
Sana Rasheed
Akhtar Saeed Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
,
,EPITHELIAL ODONTOGENIC
TUMORS
, AMELOBLASTOMA
A locally aggressive neoplasm of odontogenic epithelium
that has a wide spectrum of histologic patterns resembling
early odontogenesis.
• It is a benign neoplasm.
Four sources:
(1) remnants of the dental lamina (rests of Serres)
(2) reduced enamel epithelium
(3) rests of Malassez
(4) the basal cell layer of overlying surface epithelium
Sana Rasheed
Akhtar Saeed Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
,
,EPITHELIAL ODONTOGENIC
TUMORS
, AMELOBLASTOMA
A locally aggressive neoplasm of odontogenic epithelium
that has a wide spectrum of histologic patterns resembling
early odontogenesis.
• It is a benign neoplasm.
Four sources:
(1) remnants of the dental lamina (rests of Serres)
(2) reduced enamel epithelium
(3) rests of Malassez
(4) the basal cell layer of overlying surface epithelium