Peripheral Ameloblastoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Decani, Sem; Quatrale, Martina; Caria, Veronica; Moneghini, Laura; Varoni, Elena Maria

doi:10.3390/jcm13226714

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Peripheral Ameloblastoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature

by

Sem Decani

^1,2,

Martina Quatrale

¹

,

Veronica Caria

²,

Laura Moneghini

³

and

Elena Maria Varoni

^1,2,*

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Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20142 Milan, Italy

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Odontostomatology II, San Paolo Hospital, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, 20142 Milan, Italy

³

Pathological Anatomy, San Paolo Hospital, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, 20143 Milan, Italy

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

J. Clin. Med. 2024, 13(22), 6714; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13226714

Submission received: 24 September 2024 / Revised: 25 October 2024 / Accepted: 1 November 2024 / Published: 8 November 2024

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Review Special Issue Series: Paradigm, Advances, and Future Directions in Oral Medicine)

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Peripheral ameloblastoma (PA) is a rare benign tumor that can occur mostly in the mandibular gingiva of the premolar area, originating from the residual odontogenic epithelium. The patient is usually asymptomatic and the lesion can be an occasional finding during routine intraoral examination. Due to the lack of clinical and radiographic pathognomonic features, the diagnosis is based on histopathological analysis, associated with 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging. Here, we report the case of a middle-aged man showing an asymptomatic, sessile, normochromic papillomatous mass of the lingual alveolar mucosa, in correspondence of tooth 4.4, which was histologically diagnosed as peripheral ameloblastoma. After the complete excision of the lesion, there were no recurrence and no symptoms during the 3-year follow-up. The treatment of choice for PA is a conservative surgical excision, which usually results in a good prognosis, together with a long-term follow-up, necessary to intercept possible recurrence or, more rarely, malignant transformation.

Keywords: peripheral ameloblastoma (PA); extraosseous lesion; benign tumor

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Decani, S.; Quatrale, M.; Caria, V.; Moneghini, L.; Varoni, E.M. Peripheral Ameloblastoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature. J. Clin. Med. 2024, 13, 6714. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13226714

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Decani S, Quatrale M, Caria V, Moneghini L, Varoni EM. Peripheral Ameloblastoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2024; 13(22):6714. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13226714

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Decani, Sem, Martina Quatrale, Veronica Caria, Laura Moneghini, and Elena Maria Varoni. 2024. "Peripheral Ameloblastoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature" Journal of Clinical Medicine 13, no. 22: 6714. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13226714

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Decani, S., Quatrale, M., Caria, V., Moneghini, L., & Varoni, E. M. (2024). Peripheral Ameloblastoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(22), 6714. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13226714

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