Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/83294
Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: Craniopharyngiomas and odontogenic tumors mimic normal odontogenesis and share genetic mutations, histopathological features and molecular pathways activation
Authors: Carolina Cavalierigomes
Sílvia Ferreira de Sousa
Ricardo Santiago Gomez
Abstract: Odontogenic tumors bear some histopathologic and molecular resemblance to craniopharyngiomas. Specifically, adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma shares morphologic features and CTNNB1 (the gene encoding β-catenin) mutations with calcifying odontogenic cyst, whereas papillary craniopharyngioma and ameloblastoma are driven by BRAF mutations. Recently, important similarities between adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma and the cell signaling pathways involved in tooth formation have been described. Here, we expand the interpretation of these data in the context of odontogenic tumors. We discuss some morphologic and molecular features that are shared by tumors from these 2 distinct sites (i.e., craniopharyngiomas and odontogenic tumors). Current conservative surgical treatment is effective in most cases of benign odontogenic tumors, but in the future, the understanding of the molecular pathogenesis could impact the treatment of aggressive and/or malignant cases.
Subject: Mutation
Genes
Craniopharyngioma
Therapeutics
Odontogenic tumors
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: FAO - DEPARTAMENTO DE CLÍNICA
ICB - DEPARTAMENTO DE PATOLOGIA
Rights: Acesso Restrito
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oooo.2018.11.004
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/83294
Issue Date: Mar-2019
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212440318312422?via%3Dihub#ack0001
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
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