The author studied on the 109 cases of ameloblastoma which ahd been diagnosed with biopsy during the period of 1962 to 1992 at the kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyemyung University Hospital, Youngnam University Hospital, Catholic
Medical
School Hospital, Pusan National University and Maryknoll Hospital.
This study contains the statistical analysis of the treatment method according to the clinicopathological findings such as sex, age, location, chief complaints, duration, radiographic findings, size and recurrence.
@ES The results were as follows:
@EN 1. The incidence rate was 59.7% in male and 40.3% in female.
2. At the time of diagnosis, the age of the patients ranged from 9 to 69 years (average 31.4years). The cases of 72.4% were in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th decades of life.
3. The majority of cases occurred in the mandible 88.9%, especially in the mandiblar angle area 57.8%.
4. The most prevalent chief complaints was swelling 58.7%.
5. As regards duration, the cases less than 1 year appeared 49.5% and avrage duration is 31.34months.
6. Unilocular type showed 43.1% and multilocular ypte appeared 56.9%.
7. Conservative treatment was performed 39.4% and radical treatment was employed 60.6%.
8. There were variations of lesional sizes between 2.0cm and 15cm (average 6.26cm).
9. The recurrence rate is 29.4%.
10. The frequency of treatment was not in association with sexes, locations, chief complaints and sizes.
11. Radical treatment was performed more frequently in cases of older age group (above 20 years old), multilocular cases, above average duration (31.34 months) group and recurrent cases (p<0.05).
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