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Metastatic Transformation
It is important with ameloblastomas to differentiate between metastasis and malignancy, although this is not consistently done in the literature.

The rates for transformation into a metastasis are about 2-5%. Up to 88% of all metastatic ameloblastomas are pulmonary. It is thought that pulmonary ameloblastomas result from aspiration (or inhalation) of cells from the original neoplasm.