Central Non-Calcifying Odontogenic Tumor: A Rare Case and Review of the Literature

What Is the Non-calcifying Langerhans Cell-Rich Variant of Calcifying Epithelial Odontogenic Tumor?

“…Since the first description by Smith et al [7] in 1977, NC-CEOT has been well documented [8,10,21,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36], and the 1992 World Health Organization blue book recognized it specifically [37]. Because of the contradictory prefix "NC (non-calcifying)-C (calcifying)," a number of authors favored the modified term "NC-EOT" [5,7,31,36]. To our knowledge, only two reports of NC-CEOT have briefly mentioned that LCs were absent [33,34].…”