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Recurrent peripheral ameloblastoma in an elderly patient: A case report
Eliene Magda de Assis1,2,3, Hayder Egg Gomes2, Felipe Esteves Milício de Sousa1
1Oral Pathology Section, School of Dentistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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.
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