A Case of Undetermined Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma With Airway Stenosis Treated With Palliative X-Ray Radiotherapy Leading to Significant Improvement in Patient’s General Condition

Primary adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the upper anterior mediastinum is rarely encountered in clinical practice, and no standard treatment has been established. We performed palliative radiotherapy to improve airway narrowing in a patient with primary ACC of the mediastinum who presented with re...

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Autores principales: Utsumi, Nobuko, Inoue, Masafumi, Miura, Kosei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10132237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123788
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36743
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author Utsumi, Nobuko
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description Primary adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the upper anterior mediastinum is rarely encountered in clinical practice, and no standard treatment has been established. We performed palliative radiotherapy to improve airway narrowing in a patient with primary ACC of the mediastinum who presented with respiratory distress as their main complaint. As a result of radiotherapy, the ACC was reduced in size, the narrowed airway was opened due to compression by the ACC, and the patient's general condition improved. We present the results of this case with a review of the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-101322372023-04-27 A Case of Undetermined Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma With Airway Stenosis Treated With Palliative X-Ray Radiotherapy Leading to Significant Improvement in Patient’s General Condition Utsumi, Nobuko Inoue, Masafumi Miura, Kosei Cureus Emergency Medicine Primary adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the upper anterior mediastinum is rarely encountered in clinical practice, and no standard treatment has been established. We performed palliative radiotherapy to improve airway narrowing in a patient with primary ACC of the mediastinum who presented with respiratory distress as their main complaint. As a result of radiotherapy, the ACC was reduced in size, the narrowed airway was opened due to compression by the ACC, and the patient's general condition improved. We present the results of this case with a review of the relevant literature. Cureus 2023-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10132237/ /pubmed/37123788 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36743 Text en Copyright © 2023, Utsumi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Utsumi, Nobuko
Inoue, Masafumi
Miura, Kosei
A Case of Undetermined Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma With Airway Stenosis Treated With Palliative X-Ray Radiotherapy Leading to Significant Improvement in Patient’s General Condition
title A Case of Undetermined Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma With Airway Stenosis Treated With Palliative X-Ray Radiotherapy Leading to Significant Improvement in Patient’s General Condition
title_full A Case of Undetermined Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma With Airway Stenosis Treated With Palliative X-Ray Radiotherapy Leading to Significant Improvement in Patient’s General Condition
title_fullStr A Case of Undetermined Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma With Airway Stenosis Treated With Palliative X-Ray Radiotherapy Leading to Significant Improvement in Patient’s General Condition
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Undetermined Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma With Airway Stenosis Treated With Palliative X-Ray Radiotherapy Leading to Significant Improvement in Patient’s General Condition
title_short A Case of Undetermined Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma With Airway Stenosis Treated With Palliative X-Ray Radiotherapy Leading to Significant Improvement in Patient’s General Condition
title_sort case of undetermined adenoid cystic carcinoma with airway stenosis treated with palliative x-ray radiotherapy leading to significant improvement in patient’s general condition
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10132237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123788
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36743
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