A malignant ameloblastoma of the maxilla with pulmonary metastasis.

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  • MORITA Shosuke
    The Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Osaka Dental University
  • ARIKA Takumi
    The Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Osaka Dental University
  • NAKAJIMA Masahiro
    The Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Osaka Dental University
  • HORII Katsuko
    The Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Osaka Dental University
  • OKANO Hakuro
    The Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Osaka Dental University
  • INOUE Noboru
    The First Department of Pathology, Kansai Medical University
  • IKEHARA Susumu
    The First Department of Pathology, Kansai Medical University
  • TANIGUCHI Norimichi
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University
  • SHIMOJHO Michio
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University
  • INADA Mitsuo
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University

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  • 肺転移を生じた上顎悪性エナメル上皮腫

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Malignant ameloblastoma is known to be a very rare disease. We report a case of maxillary ameloblastoma that ended in death of pulmonary metastasis after the second operation. The patient, a 51-year-old housewife was first seen for a problem extract wound at the right maxillary second molar in October 1968. A partial resection of the right maxilla was performed under the diagnosis of ameloblastoma in February 1970. Twelve years later, recurrence at primary region was observed and excision was performed again. About 8 months after the second operation, her chest roentogenogram revealed many miliary nodules in both lungs, which gradually grew. She died about 15 years and 6 moths after the initial visit. The autopsy showed that the pulmonary lesions were the metastasis of maxillary ameloblastoma.

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