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Giant Undifferentiated Oropharyngeal Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

We report on a patient who presented to the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) clinic with swelling of the neck, dysphagia, headache, dyspnea and stridor. Imaging studies revealed an expansive heterogeneous process to the left retropharyngeal region. The mass was ovoid in shape, displaying moderate enhancem...

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Autores principales: Sepúlveda, Ilson, Frelinghuysen, Michael, García, Cesar, Platin, Enrique, Spencer, M. Loreto, Ortega, Pablo, Ulloa, David
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4256001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25493085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368849
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author Sepúlveda, Ilson
Frelinghuysen, Michael
García, Cesar
Platin, Enrique
Spencer, M. Loreto
Ortega, Pablo
Ulloa, David
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description We report on a patient who presented to the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) clinic with swelling of the neck, dysphagia, headache, dyspnea and stridor. Imaging studies revealed an expansive heterogeneous process to the left retropharyngeal region. The mass was ovoid in shape, displaying moderate enhancement after intravenous contrast administration. Subsequently, a biopsy revealed the presence of undifferentiated sarcoma. The patient was treated with chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy, but follow-up exams at 6 months posttreatment revealed that while the tumor was stable, it persisted. Consequently, the patient was enrolled in a palliative care and pain control program and is currently being followed.
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spelling pubmed-42560012014-12-09 Giant Undifferentiated Oropharyngeal Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Sepúlveda, Ilson Frelinghuysen, Michael García, Cesar Platin, Enrique Spencer, M. Loreto Ortega, Pablo Ulloa, David Case Rep Oncol Published online: October, 2014 We report on a patient who presented to the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) clinic with swelling of the neck, dysphagia, headache, dyspnea and stridor. Imaging studies revealed an expansive heterogeneous process to the left retropharyngeal region. The mass was ovoid in shape, displaying moderate enhancement after intravenous contrast administration. Subsequently, a biopsy revealed the presence of undifferentiated sarcoma. The patient was treated with chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy, but follow-up exams at 6 months posttreatment revealed that while the tumor was stable, it persisted. Consequently, the patient was enrolled in a palliative care and pain control program and is currently being followed. S. Karger AG 2014-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4256001/ /pubmed/25493085 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368849 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. 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 online: October, 2014
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Frelinghuysen, Michael
García, Cesar
Platin, Enrique
Spencer, M. Loreto
Ortega, Pablo
Ulloa, David
Giant Undifferentiated Oropharyngeal Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Giant Undifferentiated Oropharyngeal Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Giant Undifferentiated Oropharyngeal Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Giant Undifferentiated Oropharyngeal Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Giant Undifferentiated Oropharyngeal Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Giant Undifferentiated Oropharyngeal Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort giant undifferentiated oropharyngeal sarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
topic Published online: October, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4256001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25493085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368849
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