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Metastasizing ameloblastoma.

Gilijamse M, Leemans CR, Winters HA, Schulten EA, van der Waal I

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Ameloblastomas are locally invasive tumours of odontogenic origin with a high propensity for local recurrence. Regional and distant metastases are extremely rare. Here is presented a case of a 26-year-old woman with a recurrent ameloblastoma of the mandible and a metastatic lymph node in the homolateral neck.

Published 14 May 2007 in Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 36(5): 462-4.
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