A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) metastasis to the tonsil is extremely rare with five published cases. We report the case of a patient with palatine tonsillar MCC metastasis, who presented without oropharyngeal symptoms, which contrast prior reported cases.

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Autores principales: Okonkwo, Precious C., Henning, Ania, Plaza, Jose, Agrawal, Amit, Contreras, Carlo M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10025251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36950672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7063
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author Okonkwo, Precious C.
Henning, Ania
Plaza, Jose
Agrawal, Amit
Contreras, Carlo M.
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description Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) metastasis to the tonsil is extremely rare with five published cases. We report the case of a patient with palatine tonsillar MCC metastasis, who presented without oropharyngeal symptoms, which contrast prior reported cases.
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spelling pubmed-100252512023-03-21 A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report Okonkwo, Precious C. Henning, Ania Plaza, Jose Agrawal, Amit Contreras, Carlo M. Clin Case Rep Case Report Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) metastasis to the tonsil is extremely rare with five published cases. We report the case of a patient with palatine tonsillar MCC metastasis, who presented without oropharyngeal symptoms, which contrast prior reported cases. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10025251/ /pubmed/36950672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7063 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Okonkwo, Precious C.
Henning, Ania
Plaza, Jose
Agrawal, Amit
Contreras, Carlo M.
A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report
title A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report
title_full A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report
title_fullStr A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report
title_full_unstemmed A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report
title_short A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report
title_sort rare tonsillar metastasis of merkel cell carcinoma: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10025251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36950672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7063
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