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Skull and Spine Disorders

= clinically + radiographically indistinguishable from ameloblastoma

Prevalence: 3–6% of odontogenic tumors

Origin: mesenchymal odontogenic tissue

Age: 10–30 years; M <F

Location: maxilla >mandible

Cx: can be locally aggressive causing considerable destruction of adjacent bone + soft-tissue infiltration

DDx: malignancy, traumatic bone cyst, central giant cell granuloma, calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor