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Unicystic Ameloblastoma Presenting as Multilocular Lesion: A Case Report

  • 1. Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, People's Dental Academy, Bhanpur, Bhopal - 462037
  • 2. Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, People's Dental Academy, Bhanpur, Bhopal - 462037

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Unicystic ameloblastoma (UA) refers to those cystic lesions that show clinical, radiographic, or gross features of a mandibular cyst, but on histological examination show a typical ameloblastomatous epithelium lining part of the cyst cavity, with or without luminal and/or mural tumour growth. In this case report we present a uncommon multilocular unicystic ameloblastoma encountered in a 40 year old female patient.

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