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Satya Ranjan Misra ¹, Swagatika Panda ², Subrat Padhiary ³, Subhangi Pareek ², Saswati Priyadarshini ¹, Neeta Mohanty ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN
2 Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN
3 Department of Oral Surgery, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN

Abstract

Dentinogenic ghost cell tumor DGCT) is a rare, locally invasive and aggressive, benign odontogenic neoplasm which is considered to be a solid variant of calcifying odontogenic cyst COC) with locally aggressive behavior.These resemble other epithelial odontogenic tumors having proliferation of odontogenic epithelium, an abnormal keratinization in the form of ghost cells and dysplastic dentine. There are no characteristic clinical or radiologic pathognomonic features of this rare neoplasm and is confirmed by histopathological evaluation. The present report describes an extremely rare presentation of a DGCT in the posterior body-ramus of the mandible of a 13-year-old male child, which is an unusual age of occurrence.

Keywords

Calcifying Odontogenic Cyst, Dentine, Ghost Cells, Aggressive Tumor.

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