Malignant chondroid syringoma in a West African cancer institute: A case report

OBJECTIVE: To report a case of malignant chondroid syringoma, a rare skin tumor at Joliot Curie Cancer Institute in Dakar. RESULTS: We report a case of malignant chondroid syringoma of the deltoid and axilla in a 53 year old patient. Malignant chondroid syringoma is an extremely rare tumor of the sw...

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Autores principales: Ka, Sidy, Gnangnon, Freddy, Diouf, Doudou, Dieng, Mamadou Moustapha, Thiam, Jaafar, Gaye, Macoumba, Dem, Ahmadou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4929341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27372026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.06.029
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To report a case of malignant chondroid syringoma, a rare skin tumor at Joliot Curie Cancer Institute in Dakar. RESULTS: We report a case of malignant chondroid syringoma of the deltoid and axilla in a 53 year old patient. Malignant chondroid syringoma is an extremely rare tumor of the sweat glands. It is included in myoepithelial tumors of the skin. It has an epithelial component with eccrin or apocrin differentiation, and myoepithelial component. It preferentially seat at the extremities. We report an unusual case with deltoid presentation and axillary mass masqueriding as metastatic lymph node. Surgery is the main treatment. It has a poor prognosis.

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