Recurrent peripheral ameloblastoma in an elderly patient: A case report

Eliene Magda de Assis; Hayder Egg Gomes; Felipe Esteves Milício de Sousa; Sylvie Brener; Rosana Maria Leal; Paulo Eduardo Alencar Souza; Martinho Campolina Rebello Horta

doi:10.1111/ger.12377

Recurrent peripheral ameloblastoma in an elderly patient: A case report

Gerodontology. 2019 Mar;36(1):78-81. doi: 10.1111/ger.12377.

Authors

Eliene Magda de Assis^{1

2

3}, Hayder Egg Gomes², Felipe Esteves Milício de Sousa¹, Sylvie Brener^{1

2}, Rosana Maria Leal¹, Paulo Eduardo Alencar Souza^{1

2}, Martinho Campolina Rebello Horta^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Oral Pathology Section, School of Dentistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
² Graduate Program in Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
³ Faculdade Pitágoras de Ipatinga, Ipatinga, Brasil.

PMID: 30779401
DOI: 10.1111/ger.12377

Abstract

Objective: To report a case of recurrent peripheral ameloblastoma (PA) in an elderly patient.

Background: PA is a benign tumour that affects soft tissues of gingiva or edentulous alveolar areas, exhibiting histopathological characteristics of ameloblastoma.

Methods: A 79-year-old man showed a nodule in the edentulous right mandibular alveolar ridge diagnosed as recurrent PA.

Conclusion: Clinicians should consider PA as a differential diagnosis of routine nodular lesions affecting the oral mucosa of geriatric patients.

Keywords: geriatric dentistry; oral pathology.

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Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Ameloblastoma / diagnosis*
Ameloblastoma / pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Male
Mandible / pathology
Mandibular Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Mandibular Neoplasms / pathology
Mouth Mucosa / pathology*
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local

Abstract

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