Adenoid cystic carcinoma on the dorsum of the tongue

Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a relatively rare epithelial tumor of the salivary glands accounting for about 5-10% of all salivary gland neoplasms. Approximately, 31% of salivary gland neoplasms affect minor salivary glands particularly the palate. It involves tongue in only 19.8% of cases and even ra...

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Autores principales: Sengupta, Subhalakshmi, Roychowdhury, Anadi, Bhattacharya, Palash, Bandyopadhyay, Anjali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3687198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23798839
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.110689
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author Sengupta, Subhalakshmi
Roychowdhury, Anadi
Bhattacharya, Palash
Bandyopadhyay, Anjali
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description Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a relatively rare epithelial tumor of the salivary glands accounting for about 5-10% of all salivary gland neoplasms. Approximately, 31% of salivary gland neoplasms affect minor salivary glands particularly the palate. It involves tongue in only 19.8% of cases and even rarely the dorsum of the tongue. We report such a rare case that affected dorsum of the tongue in a 45-year-old-female patient.
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spelling pubmed-36871982013-06-24 Adenoid cystic carcinoma on the dorsum of the tongue Sengupta, Subhalakshmi Roychowdhury, Anadi Bhattacharya, Palash Bandyopadhyay, Anjali J Oral Maxillofac Pathol Case Report Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a relatively rare epithelial tumor of the salivary glands accounting for about 5-10% of all salivary gland neoplasms. Approximately, 31% of salivary gland neoplasms affect minor salivary glands particularly the palate. It involves tongue in only 19.8% of cases and even rarely the dorsum of the tongue. We report such a rare case that affected dorsum of the tongue in a 45-year-old-female patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3687198/ /pubmed/23798839 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.110689 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bhattacharya, Palash
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title_full Adenoid cystic carcinoma on the dorsum of the tongue
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title_short Adenoid cystic carcinoma on the dorsum of the tongue
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3687198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23798839
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.110689
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