Document Type : Case Report
Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Oral Pathology, School of Dentistry, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
2 Assistant Professor of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
3 Assistant Professor of Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Calcifying odontogenic cyst is a developmental odontogenic cyst first described by Gorlin in 1962. It is considered as an extremely rare condition and shows extensive diversity in its clinicopathological appearances and biologic behavior. In this report a rare case of calcifying odontogenic cyst with ameloblastic proliferation (an extremely rare histologic variant) with one year follow – up is described and the relevant literature is briefly reviewed.
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