1998 Volume 44 Issue 1 Pages 67-69
Recently, we encountered a rare case of odontoameloblastoma that developed in the mandibular angle region.
The patient was a 35-year-old woman who was initially brought to our department because of a swelling on the right side of the mandibular angle region. On examination her general condition was good, and there were no abnormal findings. At the lesion, swelling was localized to the right side of the mandibular angle. On palpation, the lesion felt like a hemispheric protrusion of bone. Radiograhic examination showed a unilocular radiolucent lesion, associated with an irregular intralesional radiopacity.
The clinical diagnosis was a bone cyst with a calcified body in the mandibular angle region. The bone cyst was totally extirpated under general anesthesia. The tumor, which consisted of solid tissue, measured 17 × 16×16 mm and was surrourded by a capsule. The histopathological diagnosis was odontoameloblastoma.
