1Professor & Head, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Professor, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
3Professor, Department of Oral Surgery, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
4Post Graduate Trainee, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
5Post Graduate Trainee, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
6Professor & Head, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Dentinogenic ghost cell tumor DGCT) is a rare, locally invasive and aggressive, benign odontogenic neoplasm which is considered to be a solid variant of calcifying odontogenic cyst COC) with locally aggressive behavior. These resemble other epithelial odontogenic tumors having proliferation of odontogenic epithelium, an abnormal keratinization in the form of ghost cells and dysplastic dentine. There are no characteristic clinical or radiologic pathognomonic features of this rare neoplasm and is confirmed by histopathological evaluation. The present report describes an extremely rare presentation of a DGCT in the posterior body-ramus of the mandible of a 13-year-old male child, which is an unusual age of occurrence.
Calcifying odontogenic cyst, dentine, ghost cells, aggressive tumor
