Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

We report on a patient who was referred to the ENT service following an incidental finding on an MRI scan of the brain. It revealed a mass in the right parapharyngeal space, and additional imaging confirmed the presence of a solid cystic expansive mass with moderate enhancement following contrast me...

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Autores principales: Sepúlveda, Ilson, Frelinghuysen, Michael, Platin, Enrique, Spencer, M. Loreto, Urra, Alexis, Ortega, Pablo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Published online: January, 2015
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371340
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author Sepúlveda, Ilson
Frelinghuysen, Michael
Platin, Enrique
Spencer, M. Loreto
Urra, Alexis
Ortega, Pablo
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description We report on a patient who was referred to the ENT service following an incidental finding on an MRI scan of the brain. It revealed a mass in the right parapharyngeal space, and additional imaging confirmed the presence of a solid cystic expansive mass with moderate enhancement following contrast media injection. The patient was treated with a total parotidectomy followed by radiotherapy. Currently, the patient is disease-free without any complications.
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spelling pubmed-43275532015-03-10 Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Sepúlveda, Ilson Frelinghuysen, Michael Platin, Enrique Spencer, M. Loreto Urra, Alexis Ortega, Pablo Case Rep Oncol Published online: January, 2015 We report on a patient who was referred to the ENT service following an incidental finding on an MRI scan of the brain. It revealed a mass in the right parapharyngeal space, and additional imaging confirmed the presence of a solid cystic expansive mass with moderate enhancement following contrast media injection. The patient was treated with a total parotidectomy followed by radiotherapy. Currently, the patient is disease-free without any complications. S. Karger AG 2015-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4327553/ /pubmed/25759653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371340 Text en Copyright © 2015 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: January, 2015
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Frelinghuysen, Michael
Platin, Enrique
Spencer, M. Loreto
Urra, Alexis
Ortega, Pablo
Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Acinic Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort acinic cell carcinoma of the parotid gland: a case report and review of the literature
topic Published online: January, 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371340
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