Adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland: a case report

BACKGROUND: Primary ductal adenocarcinomas of the lacrimal gland are very rare. This neoplasm shares some histological and immunohistochemical similarities with salivary duct carcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we present a case of a 55-year-old Moroccan man with lacrimal gland adenocarcinoma. He un...

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Autores principales: Touil, Asmae, El Abbassi, Sarah, Echchikhi, Yassine, Maher, Mustapha, Kebdani, Tayeb, Benjaafar, Noureddine
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5592714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28889800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1412-2
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author Touil, Asmae
El Abbassi, Sarah
Echchikhi, Yassine
Maher, Mustapha
Kebdani, Tayeb
Benjaafar, Noureddine
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description BACKGROUND: Primary ductal adenocarcinomas of the lacrimal gland are very rare. This neoplasm shares some histological and immunohistochemical similarities with salivary duct carcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we present a case of a 55-year-old Moroccan man with lacrimal gland adenocarcinoma. He underwent orbital exenteration with lymph nodes dissection and ipsilateral parotidectomy. After surgery, he was lost to follow-up and died 13 months later. CONCLUSIONS: Lacrimal gland tumors are rare but highly aggressive salivary gland tumors. Complete excision with adjuvant radiotherapy is recommended.
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spelling pubmed-55927142017-09-13 Adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland: a case report Touil, Asmae El Abbassi, Sarah Echchikhi, Yassine Maher, Mustapha Kebdani, Tayeb Benjaafar, Noureddine J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Primary ductal adenocarcinomas of the lacrimal gland are very rare. This neoplasm shares some histological and immunohistochemical similarities with salivary duct carcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we present a case of a 55-year-old Moroccan man with lacrimal gland adenocarcinoma. He underwent orbital exenteration with lymph nodes dissection and ipsilateral parotidectomy. After surgery, he was lost to follow-up and died 13 months later. CONCLUSIONS: Lacrimal gland tumors are rare but highly aggressive salivary gland tumors. Complete excision with adjuvant radiotherapy is recommended. BioMed Central 2017-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5592714/ /pubmed/28889800 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1412-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Maher, Mustapha
Kebdani, Tayeb
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title Adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland: a case report
title_full Adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland: a case report
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title_short Adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland: a case report
title_sort adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5592714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28889800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1412-2
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