A Case of Conservatively Managed Invasive Ceruminoma and a Review of the Literature

Ceruminomas are rare tumours arising from the apocrine sweat glands of the ear canal. We present a case of a malignant ceruminoma, which was managed with local surgical excision only rather than the wider clearance more commonly undertaken with these invasive neoplasms. We present the clinical case,...

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Autores principales: Saunders, T. F. C., Monksfield, P.
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/PMC4129918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25143852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/897540
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description Ceruminomas are rare tumours arising from the apocrine sweat glands of the ear canal. We present a case of a malignant ceruminoma, which was managed with local surgical excision only rather than the wider clearance more commonly undertaken with these invasive neoplasms. We present the clinical case, histological analysis, and clinical progression for this patient and review the literature on this uncommon pathology.
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spelling pubmed-41299182014-08-20 A Case of Conservatively Managed Invasive Ceruminoma and a Review of the Literature Saunders, T. F. C. Monksfield, P. Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Ceruminomas are rare tumours arising from the apocrine sweat glands of the ear canal. We present a case of a malignant ceruminoma, which was managed with local surgical excision only rather than the wider clearance more commonly undertaken with these invasive neoplasms. We present the clinical case, histological analysis, and clinical progression for this patient and review the literature on this uncommon pathology. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4129918/ /pubmed/25143852 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/897540 Text en Copyright © 2014 T. F. C. Saunders and P. Monksfield. 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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