Morales TB,Carbajal BL

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Calcifying odontogenic cyst (COC), is a pathological entity with some characteristics of cyst, however it has characteristics of solid neoplasm and its malignant transformation is well documented. The present case of COC is about a 15 year-old female with a radiolucent lesion, located in the left superior mandible, with radiopaque zones and a tooth inside, with 1.6 x 1.5 cm of size and without symptomatology. There weren’t oral clinical characteristics; the lesion was a radiographic finding Enucleation and elimination of the included tooth were performed. It was covered with a very thick capsule. A radiographic control was carried out; a normal reparative process was found. The lesion were found in a young patient, its development probably started in a earliest age of the patient. The calcifying odontogenic cyst (COC) were first recognized as a pathological entity by Gorlin et al in 1962.
This lesions isn’t invariability a cystic lesion and the similitude respect the nomenclature used for the description of the calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor get confusion between both entities, but those diseases are two different pathologies.
Some authors used the term «keratinising ameloblastoma» (Bhaskar, 1965), but this term is inappropriate because although the calcifying odontogenic cyst is histologically similar to the ameloblastoma, its clinical behavior is different.

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