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Review
. 2013 Feb;25(1):21-30, v.
doi: 10.1016/j.coms.2012.11.003. Epub 2012 Dec 4.

The keratocystic odontogenic tumor

M A Pogrel  1
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Review

The keratocystic odontogenic tumor

M A Pogrel. Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am. 2013 Feb.

Abstract

In 2005, the World Health Organization renamed the lesion previously known as an odontogenic keratocyst as the keratocystic odontogenic tumor. The clinical features associated with the keratocystic odontogenic tumor show it to be a unilocular or multilocular radiolucency, occurring most frequently in the posterior mandible. These tumors are normally diagnosed histologically from a sample of the lining. With simple enucleation, it seems that the recurrence rate may be from 25% to 60%.

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