Volume : VIII, Issue : XII, December - 2019

ADENOMATOID ODONTOGENIC TUMOR IN PREGNANCY - A CASE REPORT

Girish V Chour, Harini J S, Rashmi G Chour

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Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumor (AOT) is a distinct odontogenic neoplasm which is sometimes considered as a hamartomatous proliferation of odontogenic tissue but currently regarded as a true neoplasm. Topographically AOT occurs in many variants but all show identical histological features. This article is a case report of a maxillary swelling in a pregnant female who was in her 2nd trimester. The swelling was pea size which grew rapidly during the pregnancy period and post–partum the patient came to the OPD with the swelling with the present size of 5cm X 5cm. Surgical enucleation was done of the same under general anaesthesia and on subsequent follow ups the gross facial asymmetry also reduced. Histologically it was suggestive of “Follicular Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumor”. The Female preponderance in AOT is significant and these lesions grow rapidly during pregnancy indicative of oestrogen receptor expression but cannot be affirmative to rule out as the sole cause of the growth. Further research is appreciated to find the correlation between benign odontogenic tumors and pregnancy.

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ADENOMATOID ODONTOGENIC TUMOR IN PREGNANCY - A CASE REPORT, Girish V Chour, Harini J S, Rashmi G Chour INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-12 | December-2019

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