The report on odontomes / by the Committee appointed by the British Dental Association.

  • British Dental Association.
Date:
1914
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    deposits in glands or remote parts did not occur; nor did that important feature infiltration appear to be present. There is one exception to the above statement, if the following case, designated by Sir Frederic Eve* as a com- posite embryo-plastic odontome (sarcoma), be correctly attributed to a dental origin. The account of the case is taken from the Catalogue of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons:— “ The tumour was removed in 1877 from a patient aged 67. In 1847 Sir W. Fergusson removed from the right side of the lower jaw a ‘ fibroid ’ tumour, containing a cyst of many years’ duration. In July, 1877, a cystic tumour, which had developed in the left half of the lower jaw, was operated on by opening the cysts and scooping out their contents. In November, 1879, the patient re- appeared with a large solid tumour, which had grown on the left side of the jaw in the site of the cystic tumour. This recurrent growth was removed ; it is the specimen preserved. The patient died three months afterwards with recurrence of the tumour in the skin of cheek, with a round-cell sarcoma beneath the right biceps muscles, and a tumour of a similar nature in the pelvis.” Although at present there does not appear to be sufficient evidence to justifiy the establishment of a group of malignant odontomes, yet on theoretical con- siderations the possibility of such tumours occurring is quite conceivable. Catalogue of Specimen shown in the Museum. Lent by Sir Frederic Eve. 228. Microscopical section and lantern slide. Embryoplastio odontome: sarcomatous. The following account is from Sir Frederic Eve’s notes. * Eve, Brit. Med. Journ., June 29, 1907, p. 1525.