Lung metastases from cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinoma 23 years after initial treatment

Cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinoma (CACC) is an extremely rare neoplasm of head and neck region, and is characterized by propensity for local recurrence and perineural invasion. Late distant metastases occur usually to lungs. Although patients with lung metastases from CACC cannot be cured, long-ter...

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Autores principales: Arano, Naoko, Morio, Yoshiteru, Futagawa, Toshiro, Hashizume, Akane, Nagashima, Osamu, Sasaki, Shin-Ichi, Tominaga, Shigeru, Takahashi, Kazuhisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5403765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28462081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.04.015
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Sumario:Cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinoma (CACC) is an extremely rare neoplasm of head and neck region, and is characterized by propensity for local recurrence and perineural invasion. Late distant metastases occur usually to lungs. Although patients with lung metastases from CACC cannot be cured, long-term survival may be possible due to its slow-growing malignancy. We report a case of a 69-year-old female with lung metastases from CACC 23 years after initial surgery of scalp nodule.

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