Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of the Tongue in an Adolescent

Alveolar soft part sarcoma is a rare malignant soft tissue neoplasm of uncertain histogenesis and aggressive clinical behavior. Alveolar soft part sarcoma arises in the head and neck in 27% of cases, with 25% of head and neck cases occurring in the tongue. Herein the case of a pediatric patient diag...

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Autores principales: Suárez, Amaranto, Paz, Kelly, Melo-Uribe, Mario, Moreno, Andrey, Calderon, Alejandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11506
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author Suárez, Amaranto
Paz, Kelly
Melo-Uribe, Mario
Moreno, Andrey
Calderon, Alejandra
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Paz, Kelly
Melo-Uribe, Mario
Moreno, Andrey
Calderon, Alejandra
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description Alveolar soft part sarcoma is a rare malignant soft tissue neoplasm of uncertain histogenesis and aggressive clinical behavior. Alveolar soft part sarcoma arises in the head and neck in 27% of cases, with 25% of head and neck cases occurring in the tongue. Herein the case of a pediatric patient diagnosed with alveolar soft tissue sarcoma of the tongue, who received surgical treatment with total resection of the lesion and chemotherapy without radiotherapy, is presented. To date, the patient is in remission of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-77442082020-12-21 Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of the Tongue in an Adolescent Suárez, Amaranto Paz, Kelly Melo-Uribe, Mario Moreno, Andrey Calderon, Alejandra Cureus Pediatrics Alveolar soft part sarcoma is a rare malignant soft tissue neoplasm of uncertain histogenesis and aggressive clinical behavior. Alveolar soft part sarcoma arises in the head and neck in 27% of cases, with 25% of head and neck cases occurring in the tongue. Herein the case of a pediatric patient diagnosed with alveolar soft tissue sarcoma of the tongue, who received surgical treatment with total resection of the lesion and chemotherapy without radiotherapy, is presented. To date, the patient is in remission of the disease. Cureus 2020-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7744208/ /pubmed/33354451 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11506 Text en Copyright © 2020, Suárez et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Pediatrics
Suárez, Amaranto
Paz, Kelly
Melo-Uribe, Mario
Moreno, Andrey
Calderon, Alejandra
Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of the Tongue in an Adolescent
title Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of the Tongue in an Adolescent
title_full Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of the Tongue in an Adolescent
title_fullStr Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of the Tongue in an Adolescent
title_full_unstemmed Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of the Tongue in an Adolescent
title_short Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma of the Tongue in an Adolescent
title_sort alveolar soft part sarcoma of the tongue in an adolescent
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11506
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