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Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an uncommon neuroendocrine cutaneous tumor with poor prognosis. It has the high rate of recurrence, mortality, regional nodal involvement, and distant metastases. It is difficult to diagnose MCC because of its non-specific clinical findings. It usually occurs on sun-ex...
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Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30282431 http://dx.doi.org/10.7181/acfs.2018.01858 |
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author | Ha, Non Hyeon Kim, Sue Kyung Shin, Yoo Seob Kim, Sue Min |
author_facet | Ha, Non Hyeon Kim, Sue Kyung Shin, Yoo Seob Kim, Sue Min |
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description | Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an uncommon neuroendocrine cutaneous tumor with poor prognosis. It has the high rate of recurrence, mortality, regional nodal involvement, and distant metastases. It is difficult to diagnose MCC because of its non-specific clinical findings. It usually occurs on sun-exposed areas of the skin, mostly at head and neck. There is a difference in the incidence and prognosis according to site in the head and neck. However, there is no consented site-specific diagnosis, treatment or follow-up protocol for MCC at the head and neck. We herein report a case of MCC arising in the right earlobe of an otherwise healthy young man who has been diagnosed early, thereby successfully treated. With our closed follow-up, there was no tumor recurrence or complication at 33 months after diagnosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-61776802018-10-11 Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man Ha, Non Hyeon Kim, Sue Kyung Shin, Yoo Seob Kim, Sue Min Arch Craniofac Surg Case Report Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an uncommon neuroendocrine cutaneous tumor with poor prognosis. It has the high rate of recurrence, mortality, regional nodal involvement, and distant metastases. It is difficult to diagnose MCC because of its non-specific clinical findings. It usually occurs on sun-exposed areas of the skin, mostly at head and neck. There is a difference in the incidence and prognosis according to site in the head and neck. However, there is no consented site-specific diagnosis, treatment or follow-up protocol for MCC at the head and neck. We herein report a case of MCC arising in the right earlobe of an otherwise healthy young man who has been diagnosed early, thereby successfully treated. With our closed follow-up, there was no tumor recurrence or complication at 33 months after diagnosis. Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association 2018-09 2018-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6177680/ /pubmed/30282431 http://dx.doi.org/10.7181/acfs.2018.01858 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ha, Non Hyeon Kim, Sue Kyung Shin, Yoo Seob Kim, Sue Min Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man |
title | Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man |
title_full | Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man |
title_fullStr | Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man |
title_full_unstemmed | Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man |
title_short | Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man |
title_sort | primary merkel cell carcinoma of the earlobe in a young healthy man |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30282431 http://dx.doi.org/10.7181/acfs.2018.01858 |
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