Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare tumor, described as being one of the most biologically destructive tumors of the head and neck. It is the most common malignancy that affects the minor salivary glands. Lung and bones are the most common regions of ACC distant metastasis. To the best of our k...

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Autores principales: Alshammari, Abdullah, Eldeib, Omar Jamal, Eldeib, Ahmed Jamal, Saleh, Waleed
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26933463
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.165307
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author Alshammari, Abdullah
Eldeib, Omar Jamal
Eldeib, Ahmed Jamal
Saleh, Waleed
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description Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare tumor, described as being one of the most biologically destructive tumors of the head and neck. It is the most common malignancy that affects the minor salivary glands. Lung and bones are the most common regions of ACC distant metastasis. To the best of our knowledge, herein, we report the first ever case of latent isolated sternal metastasis from ACC in a 52-year-old gentleman, who was diagnosed to have ACC of the submandibular gland, excised 10 years ago.
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spelling pubmed-47486212016-03-01 Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male Alshammari, Abdullah Eldeib, Omar Jamal Eldeib, Ahmed Jamal Saleh, Waleed Ann Thorac Med Case Report Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare tumor, described as being one of the most biologically destructive tumors of the head and neck. It is the most common malignancy that affects the minor salivary glands. Lung and bones are the most common regions of ACC distant metastasis. To the best of our knowledge, herein, we report the first ever case of latent isolated sternal metastasis from ACC in a 52-year-old gentleman, who was diagnosed to have ACC of the submandibular gland, excised 10 years ago. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4748621/ /pubmed/26933463 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.165307 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Annals of Thoracic Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Alshammari, Abdullah
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Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male
title Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male
title_full Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male
title_fullStr Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male
title_full_unstemmed Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male
title_short Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male
title_sort adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland with rare metastasis to the sternum in a 52-year-old male
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26933463
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.165307
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