Review Article

Pathogenesis and Nomenclature of Odontogenic Carcinomas: Revisited

Table 6

Histological subtypes of ameloblastic carcinomas by Kamath et al. [15].

SubtypesCharacteristic histological features

(1) Ameloblastic typeWith atypical and pleomorphic ameloblasts
(2) Granular cell typeMajority of cells are of the granular cell variety
(3) Clear cell variantMajority of cells are of the clear cell variety
(4) Spindle cell variantSpindle cell differentiation predominates the histology