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[[Image:ameloblastoma.gif|right|thumb|125px|<small><center>Ameloblastoma (Courtesy of Alun Williams (RVC))</center></small>]]
 
*aka: basal cell carcinoma, acanthomatous ameloblastoma, acanthomatous epulis
 
*18% of cases.
 
*Islands and sheets of mature odontogenic epithelium within a collagenous fibrous connective tissue stroma of low/moderate cellularity.
 
*Each of the islands bounded by a row of tall columnnar cells.
 
*These palisading cells exhibit polarisation away from the basement membrane and had cytoplasmic vacuolation.
 
*Central cells had a basaloid appearance.
 
*Often infiiltrating into the underlying bone.
 
*Synonymous with basal cell carcinoma.
 
 
 
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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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[[Category:Teeth_-_Proliferative_Pathology]]
 
[[Category:Neoplasia]][[Category:To_Do_-_Clinical]]
 

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