title: Congenital peripheral ameloblastic fibroma with intraosseous involvement in a 2-week-old infant: A case report with review of literature.
abstract: Ameloblastic fibroma is a rare, slow-growing benign mixed odontogenic tumor. It constitutes 2% of odontogenic tumors and is reported to occur at an age ranging from 6 months to 42 years. The youngest being a 7-week-old infant. We report a case of peripheral ameloblastic fibroma in a 2-week-old infant. The lesion presented since birth. It involved the maxilla with an extraosseous component involving the gingiva. A more or less conservative surgical approach of enucleation and curettage of the lesion was done under general anesthesia, trying to conserve the adjacent tooth buds. Only a few cases of congenital peripheral ameloblastic fibroma have been reported so far.
authors.forename: Sabina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.forename: Monisha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Choudhury
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, UP Rural Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Savita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: Parvesh
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mehra
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008441:Maxillary Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery*; D009808:Odontogenic Tumors / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery*