Oral rhabdomyosarcoma in an adult male: A rare case report

Rhabdomyosarcoma is a malignant neoplasm of mesenchymal cells, showing varying degrees of striated muscle cell differentiation. It predominantly occurs in children while rarely found in adults and involvement of the oral cavity accounts for only 10%–12% of all head-and-neck cases. Herewith, we prese...

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Autores principales: Joy, Tabita, Tupkari, Jagdish Vishnu, Hanchate, Amrut V, Siwach, Pooja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6097379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30158795
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.JOMFP_11_17
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author Joy, Tabita
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Siwach, Pooja
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description Rhabdomyosarcoma is a malignant neoplasm of mesenchymal cells, showing varying degrees of striated muscle cell differentiation. It predominantly occurs in children while rarely found in adults and involvement of the oral cavity accounts for only 10%–12% of all head-and-neck cases. Herewith, we present a rare case of spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma in a 52-year old male, involving the mandibular gingiva, and describe the clinical, radiological, histopathological and immunohistochemical findings.
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spelling pubmed-60973792018-08-29 Oral rhabdomyosarcoma in an adult male: A rare case report Joy, Tabita Tupkari, Jagdish Vishnu Hanchate, Amrut V Siwach, Pooja J Oral Maxillofac Pathol Case Report Rhabdomyosarcoma is a malignant neoplasm of mesenchymal cells, showing varying degrees of striated muscle cell differentiation. It predominantly occurs in children while rarely found in adults and involvement of the oral cavity accounts for only 10%–12% of all head-and-neck cases. Herewith, we present a rare case of spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma in a 52-year old male, involving the mandibular gingiva, and describe the clinical, radiological, histopathological and immunohistochemical findings. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6097379/ /pubmed/30158795 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.JOMFP_11_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6097379/
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