background: vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) is capable of initiating angiogenesis in blood vessels and may act as mitogenic agent for epithelium of odontogenic cysts and tumors. this study was conducted to evaluate the role of epithelial vegf expression in odontogenic cysts and ameloblastoma and its correlation with argyrophilic nucleolar organizer region counts to assess its role in ...

A high proliferative activity of the odontogenic epithelium in ameloblastoma (AM) and keratocystic odontogenic tumor (KOT) has been demonstrated. However, no previous study has simultaneously evaluated cell proliferation and apoptotic indexes in AM and KOT, comparing both lesions. The aim of this study was to assess and compare cell proliferation and apoptotic rates between these two tumors. Sp...

PURPOSE Multicystic ameloblastoma is a benign epithelial odontogenic tumor that exhibits a more aggressive behavior than follicular cyst and keratocystic odontogenic tumor (KCOT). The aim of this study was to perform an immunohistochemical evaluation of the mean microvessel density (MVD) effect on clinical behavior of odontogenic lesions and to determine whether peritumoral or intratumoral MVD ...

Amelo blastoma is a neoplasm that originates from odontogenic epithelium. It the second most common of oral cavity. Uni cystic ameloblastomas refer to those lesions show clinical, radio graphic, or gross features jaw cyst, but on histologic examination typical ameloblastomatous epithelium lining part cyst cavity, with without luminal and/ mural growth. Even though lesion not aggressive as solid...

Background: Ameloblastic carcinoma is a rare and malignant odontogenic tumour possibly arising de-novo from pre-existing ameloblastoma. It aggressive locally destructive. Ameloblastoma the most common benign of mandible. originates tooth-forming epithelium, where its aetiology remains unknown. usually grows slowly, asymptomatic, destroys surrounding bone tissue. Malignant transformation amelobl...

A systematic review of the literature from 1993 to 2011 was undertaken examining frequency data of the most common odontogenic cysts and tumors. Seven inclusion criteria were met for the paper to be incorporated. In the preliminary search 5231 papers were identified, of these 26 papers met the inclusion criteria. There were 18 297 odontogenic cysts reported. Of these there were 9982 (54.6%) rad...