Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Dentinogenic Ghost Cell Tumour in a 13-Year-Old Child, a Rare Presentation

  • Author:
  • Satya Ranjan Misra1,, Swagatika Panda2, Subrat Padhiary3, Subhangi Pareek4, Saswati Priyadarshini5, Neeta Mohanty6
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 1102 to 1106

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

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Satya Ranjan Misra, Professor & Head, Department of Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Radiology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan(Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar 751003, India, e-mail: satyamisra@soa.ac.in

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Calcifying odontogenic cyst, dentine, ghost cells, aggressive tumor