TY - JOUR
T1 - Primordial Odontogenic Tumor
T2 - Report of a Case
AU - Slater, Lee J.
AU - Eftimie, Liviu F.
AU - Herford, Alan S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Primordial odontogenic tumor (POT) was first described in 2014. It typically presents in the posterior mandible of a child or adolescent as a "dentigerous cyst-like" well-circumscribed radiolucency associated with an unerupted molar. POT consists of an ellipsoidal mass of dental papilla-like myxoid connective tissue entirely enveloped in a delicate membrane of ameloblastic epithelium. It shows features of a developing tooth with a huge dental papilla, and because it is devoid of dental hard tissue, it could be regarded a soft tissue odontoma. The lesion histologically mimics early (primordial) stages of tooth development. This report describes a case of POT and POT-like proliferations in an unrelated complex odontoma.
AB - Primordial odontogenic tumor (POT) was first described in 2014. It typically presents in the posterior mandible of a child or adolescent as a "dentigerous cyst-like" well-circumscribed radiolucency associated with an unerupted molar. POT consists of an ellipsoidal mass of dental papilla-like myxoid connective tissue entirely enveloped in a delicate membrane of ameloblastic epithelium. It shows features of a developing tooth with a huge dental papilla, and because it is devoid of dental hard tissue, it could be regarded a soft tissue odontoma. The lesion histologically mimics early (primordial) stages of tooth development. This report describes a case of POT and POT-like proliferations in an unrelated complex odontoma.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.joms.2015.08.019
DO - 10.1016/j.joms.2015.08.019
M3 - Article
C2 - 26408843
SN - 0278-2391
VL - 74
SP - 547
EP - 551
JO - Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
JF - Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
IS - 3
ER -