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===Neoplastic===

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====[[Peripheral odontogenic fibroma]]~~<ref name="epulides1"></ref>====~~

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====[[Peripheral odontogenic fibroma]]

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====~~Peripheral ameloblastoma<ref name="epulides1"> </ref>====~~

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====[[Peripheral ameloblastoma]]

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[[~~Image:~~ameloblastoma~~.gif|right|thumb|125px|<small><center>Ameloblastoma (Courtesy of Alun Williams (RVC))</center></small>~~]]

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*aka: basal cell carcinoma, acanthomatous ameloblastoma, acanthomatous epulis

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*18% of cases.

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*Islands and sheets of mature odontogenic epithelium within a collagenous fibrous connective tissue stroma of low/moderate cellularity.

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*Each of the islands bounded by a row of tall columnnar cells.

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*These palisading cells exhibit polarisation away from the basement membrane and had cytoplasmic vacuolation.

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*Central cells had a basaloid appearance.

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*Often infiiltrating into the underlying bone.

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*Synonymous with basal cell carcinoma.

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~~<small>~~

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~~With thanks to Andrew Jefferies (Cambridge) and Alun Williams (RVC) for providing access to their lecture materials~~

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~~</small>~~

====Central ameloblastoma<ref name="epulides1"> </ref>====

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