Giant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate

Myoepitheliomas are benign salivary gland tumors and account for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors. They are usually located in the parotid gland. The soft palate is very rare affected site. The differential diagnosis of myoepitheliomas should include reactive and neoplastic lesions. The tre...

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Autores principales: Oktay, Murat, Yaman, Huseyin, Belada, Abdullah, Besir, Fahri Halit, Guclu, Ender
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3965919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24711949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/561259
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author Oktay, Murat
Yaman, Huseyin
Belada, Abdullah
Besir, Fahri Halit
Guclu, Ender
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description Myoepitheliomas are benign salivary gland tumors and account for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors. They are usually located in the parotid gland. The soft palate is very rare affected site. The differential diagnosis of myoepitheliomas should include reactive and neoplastic lesions. The treatment of myoepitheliomas is complete removal of the tumor. Herein, we report a case with giant myoepithelioma of the soft palate, reviewing the related literature.
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spelling pubmed-39659192014-04-07 Giant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate Oktay, Murat Yaman, Huseyin Belada, Abdullah Besir, Fahri Halit Guclu, Ender Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Myoepitheliomas are benign salivary gland tumors and account for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors. They are usually located in the parotid gland. The soft palate is very rare affected site. The differential diagnosis of myoepitheliomas should include reactive and neoplastic lesions. The treatment of myoepitheliomas is complete removal of the tumor. Herein, we report a case with giant myoepithelioma of the soft palate, reviewing the related literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3965919/ /pubmed/24711949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/561259 Text en Copyright © 2014 Murat Oktay et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Giant Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/561259
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