Lymphoma of the Base of the Tongue: An Incidental Finding on the Preoperative Workup for a Spine Surgery

Lymphoma of the tongue is very rare and accounts for 1% of all malignant tumors of the oral cavity. We present a patient who presented with weakness and difficulties with ambulation who was a known cervical spine spondylosis and stenosis patient. During the preoperative workup for cervical spine sur...

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Autor principal: Walid, Mohammad Sami
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3318884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22493655
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr2009.07.1251
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description Lymphoma of the tongue is very rare and accounts for 1% of all malignant tumors of the oral cavity. We present a patient who presented with weakness and difficulties with ambulation who was a known cervical spine spondylosis and stenosis patient. During the preoperative workup for cervical spine surgery a tumor at the base of the tongue was discovered which was confirmed by pathology to be a lymphoma. KEYWORDS: Lymphoma; Tongue; Spine surgery; Preoperative workup
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spelling pubmed-33188842012-04-10 Lymphoma of the Base of the Tongue: An Incidental Finding on the Preoperative Workup for a Spine Surgery Walid, Mohammad Sami J Clin Med Res Case Report Lymphoma of the tongue is very rare and accounts for 1% of all malignant tumors of the oral cavity. We present a patient who presented with weakness and difficulties with ambulation who was a known cervical spine spondylosis and stenosis patient. During the preoperative workup for cervical spine surgery a tumor at the base of the tongue was discovered which was confirmed by pathology to be a lymphoma. KEYWORDS: Lymphoma; Tongue; Spine surgery; Preoperative workup Elmer Press 2009-08 2009-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3318884/ /pubmed/22493655 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr2009.07.1251 Text en Copyright 2009, Walid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Lymphoma of the Base of the Tongue: An Incidental Finding on the Preoperative Workup for a Spine Surgery
title_full_unstemmed Lymphoma of the Base of the Tongue: An Incidental Finding on the Preoperative Workup for a Spine Surgery
title_short Lymphoma of the Base of the Tongue: An Incidental Finding on the Preoperative Workup for a Spine Surgery
title_sort lymphoma of the base of the tongue: an incidental finding on the preoperative workup for a spine surgery
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3318884/
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