title: Radical management of giant ameloblastomas: a case series.
abstract: Ameloblastomas are rare, slowly growing and locally invasive tumours with high recurrence rate, if not treated they can grow to enormous size; we report five such cases in our article and discuss their surgical management. We report five cases of giant ameloblastoma presented in our institute between 2007 and 2010, we treated them surgically with wide margin of resection. It is widely reported that recurrence of ameloblastoma in many cases reflects the inadequacy or failure of the primary surgical procedure. We treated all our cases with radical excision with free flap reconstruction with no recurrence in any of our patients in 2 years follow-up. Radical excision of these benign but locally invasive lesions, which grows to giant size with reconstruction using micro vascular free flaps forms the best modality of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT and Head-Neck Surgery, Seth G S Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India.
authors.forename: Arpit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Ahmed M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Shaikh
authors.forename: Shraddha V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Deshmukh
authors.forename: Jyoti P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Dabholkar
keywords: Ameloblastoma; Radical excision; Surgical management