Baskaran Pavitra, Misra Satyaranjan, Kumar M Sathya, Mithra R
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, SRM Kattankulathur Dental College, Potheri, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India.
J Clin Imaging Sci. 2011;1:64. doi: 10.4103/2156-7514.92186. Epub 2011 Dec 31.
Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT) is an uncommon, hamartomatous, benign, epithelial lesion of odontogenic origin that was first described by Driebaldt in 1907, as a pseudo-adenoameloblastoma. The current World Health Organisation (WHO) classification of odontogenic tumors defines AOT as being composed of the odontogenic epithelium in a variety of histoarchitectural patterns, embedded in mature connective tissue stroma, and characterized by slow, but progressive growth. The current article reports two cases with different presentations; first in a young female patient and the second in a middle-aged male patient. The importance of biopsy, which is the gold standard for diagnosis, and its use in planning of the treatment is discussed.
腺牙源性肿瘤（AOT）是一种罕见的、错构瘤性、良性的牙源性上皮病变，1907年由德里巴特首次描述为假腺性成釉细胞瘤。世界卫生组织（WHO）目前对牙源性肿瘤的分类将AOT定义为由多种组织架构模式的牙源性上皮组成，嵌入成熟的结缔组织基质中，其特点是生长缓慢但呈进行性。本文报告了两例表现不同的病例；第一例为年轻女性患者，第二例为中年男性患者。讨论了活检作为诊断金标准的重要性及其在治疗规划中的应用。
