7.1.3 AMELOBLASTOMA (ADAMANTINOMA)
This is an uncommon solid tumour of the mandible and occurs in
the body of mandible at its junction with the ramus.
Growth is slow and it expands the bone.
Microscopically interlacing strands of odontogenic epithelium is
enmeshed in a connective tissue stroma. There are areas of
cystic degeneration.
Treatment is segmental resection of mandible followed by
reconstruction of the mandible.
7.2 OSTEOGENIC TUMORS
These are malignant tumours like those that affect other bones in
the body, e.g. Multiple myeloma, Ewing 's sarcoma, Osteogenci
sarcoma, chondrosarcoma and periosteal fibrosarcoma.
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