Primary oral soft tissue angiosarcoma of the cheek: a case report and literature review

Angiosarcoma is a rare and aggressive malignant tumor that has a poor prognosis. It represents less than 1% of all malignancies occurring in the oral cavity and salivary glands. We present a 35-year-old male with angiosarcoma of the cheek following traumatic injury and a review of the current litera...

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Autores principales: Fomete, Benjamin, Samaila, Modupe, Edaigbini, Sunday, Agbara, Rowlan, Okeke, Uche Albert
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26568931
http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2015.41.5.273
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author Fomete, Benjamin
Samaila, Modupe
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description Angiosarcoma is a rare and aggressive malignant tumor that has a poor prognosis. It represents less than 1% of all malignancies occurring in the oral cavity and salivary glands. We present a 35-year-old male with angiosarcoma of the cheek following traumatic injury and a review of the current literature.
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spelling pubmed-46412202015-11-14 Primary oral soft tissue angiosarcoma of the cheek: a case report and literature review Fomete, Benjamin Samaila, Modupe Edaigbini, Sunday Agbara, Rowlan Okeke, Uche Albert J Korean Assoc Oral Maxillofac Surg Case Report Angiosarcoma is a rare and aggressive malignant tumor that has a poor prognosis. It represents less than 1% of all malignancies occurring in the oral cavity and salivary glands. We present a 35-year-old male with angiosarcoma of the cheek following traumatic injury and a review of the current literature. The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2015-10 2015-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4641220/ /pubmed/26568931 http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2015.41.5.273 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Primary oral soft tissue angiosarcoma of the cheek: a case report and literature review
title_short Primary oral soft tissue angiosarcoma of the cheek: a case report and literature review
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