Améloblastome: Diagnostic et traitement. A propos de 26 cas

Abstract

Ameloblastoma is an epithelial odontogenic tumour; harmless of part its histology but clever of part its invasif power and local distorting. This study concerned a series of 26 colligated cases in ORL and maxillofacial surgery services at Hospital of the Specialities of Rabat between January 2000 and February 2007. The medium age of our patients was 30 years with a sex ratio of 1. The majority of the patients saw only at the stage of tumefaction. The most frequent location was in mandible with 23 cases (88, 4%). On therapeutic plan, 4 benefited from a conservative treatment and 22 of a radical treatment. It noted a rate of repetition of 23% (6/26 cases) which joins the data of literature. This subject hard provoked our interest due to its relating frequency in our country contrary to foreign data and, especially, difficulty of was taken care therapeutics seen the committing a second offence and wounding power of these tumours and also of the role of the surgeon dentist in the early detection. © Med Buccale Chir Buccale 2009.