Table 6.
Histopathologic types of paediatric orofacial tumour from 2005 to 2010
| HISTOPATHOLOGIC TYPE |
YEARS | ||||||
| Benign Tumours | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | total |
| Ameloblastoma | 1 | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 6 |
| Odontogenic fibromyxoma | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Odontome | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Peripheral odontogenic fibroma | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Fibrous dysplasia | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Juvenile ossigying fibroma | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| Pyogenic granuloma | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Haemangioma | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Granular cell tumour | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Peripheral ossifying fibroma | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 4 |
| Central giant cell granuloma | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 5 |
| Lipoma | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Periapical granuloma | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Fibroepithelial | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Malignant tumours | |||||||
| Burkitt's lymphoma | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 25 |
| Non-hodgkin lymphoma | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 5 | 7 |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Chondrosarcoma | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Malignant fibrous histocytoma | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma |
- | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 13 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 9 | 11 | 71 |
| Percentage | 9.5 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 16.8 | 6.6 | 8.0 | 51.8 |