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===Neoplastic===
 
===Neoplastic===
====[[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]]
[[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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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>====
 
====Central ameloblastoma<ref name="epulides1"> </ref>====
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