Radiotherapy in Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate – Case Report

Myoepithelioma is a very rare neoplasm that accounts only for about 1% of all salivary gland tumours. As the lesion is so rare, there are no specific recommendations or guidelines for its treatment. In the literature, there have been only a few cases reported without any existing data concerning rad...

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Autores principales: Soumarová, Renata, Lovasová, Zuzana, Vaňková, Marie, Sokol, Ladislav
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2009
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Published: July 2009
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20740173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000228546
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author Soumarová, Renata
Lovasová, Zuzana
Vaňková, Marie
Sokol, Ladislav
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description Myoepithelioma is a very rare neoplasm that accounts only for about 1% of all salivary gland tumours. As the lesion is so rare, there are no specific recommendations or guidelines for its treatment. In the literature, there have been only a few cases reported without any existing data concerning radiotherapy. We present a very good palliative effect of radiotherapy in a very old man.
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spelling pubmed-29188582010-08-25 Radiotherapy in Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate – Case Report Soumarová, Renata Lovasová, Zuzana Vaňková, Marie Sokol, Ladislav Case Rep Oncol Published: July 2009 Myoepithelioma is a very rare neoplasm that accounts only for about 1% of all salivary gland tumours. As the lesion is so rare, there are no specific recommendations or guidelines for its treatment. In the literature, there have been only a few cases reported without any existing data concerning radiotherapy. We present a very good palliative effect of radiotherapy in a very old man. S. Karger AG 2009-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2918858/ /pubmed/20740173 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000228546 Text en Copyright © 2009 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: July 2009
Soumarová, Renata
Lovasová, Zuzana
Vaňková, Marie
Sokol, Ladislav
Radiotherapy in Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate – Case Report
title Radiotherapy in Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate – Case Report
title_full Radiotherapy in Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate – Case Report
title_fullStr Radiotherapy in Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate – Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Radiotherapy in Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate – Case Report
title_short Radiotherapy in Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate – Case Report
title_sort radiotherapy in malignant myoepithelioma of the soft palate – case report
topic Published: July 2009
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20740173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000228546
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