ossifying fibroma

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ossifying fibroma

[′äs·ə‚fī·iŋ fī′brō·mə]

(medicine)

A benign bone tumor derived from ossiferous connective tissue. Also known as fibrous osteoma; osteogenic fibroma.

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The concept of differentiated (regressing) Adamantinoma and its relationship to osteofibrous dysplasia.

Cytokeratin expression and distribution in Adamantinoma of the long bones and osteofibrous dysplasia of the tibia and the fibula.

Adamantinoma and ameloblastoma: histologic homologues

These 2 populations are also seen in differentiated adamantinoma (41) and osteofibrous dysplasia (OFD) although with a significantly reduced epithelial component: Differentiated adamantinoma displays scattered strands of epithelial cells distributed in a fibro-osseous matrix, whereas OFD has this same background with only rare epithelial cells detected by immunohistochemistry (Figure 6, C).