Low-Grade Chondrosarcoma of the Posterior Cricoid Plate

This case report presents an unusual case of chondrosarcoma arising from the cricoid cartilage of the larynx. Although these are commonly low-grade malignancies, this patient attended an outpatient respiratory clinic with acute airway obstruction, and went on to require a total laryngectomy due to t...

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Autores principales: Moen, Christy M, Lim, Alison E, Townsley, Richard B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Otolaryngology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8253495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34249549
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15400
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description This case report presents an unusual case of chondrosarcoma arising from the cricoid cartilage of the larynx. Although these are commonly low-grade malignancies, this patient attended an outpatient respiratory clinic with acute airway obstruction, and went on to require a total laryngectomy due to the size of their tumour. 
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spelling pubmed-82534952021-07-09 Low-Grade Chondrosarcoma of the Posterior Cricoid Plate Moen, Christy M Lim, Alison E Townsley, Richard B Cureus Otolaryngology This case report presents an unusual case of chondrosarcoma arising from the cricoid cartilage of the larynx. Although these are commonly low-grade malignancies, this patient attended an outpatient respiratory clinic with acute airway obstruction, and went on to require a total laryngectomy due to the size of their tumour.  Cureus 2021-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8253495/ /pubmed/34249549 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15400 Text en Copyright © 2021, Moen et al. https://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 Otolaryngology
Moen, Christy M
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Townsley, Richard B
Low-Grade Chondrosarcoma of the Posterior Cricoid Plate
title Low-Grade Chondrosarcoma of the Posterior Cricoid Plate
title_full Low-Grade Chondrosarcoma of the Posterior Cricoid Plate
title_fullStr Low-Grade Chondrosarcoma of the Posterior Cricoid Plate
title_full_unstemmed Low-Grade Chondrosarcoma of the Posterior Cricoid Plate
title_short Low-Grade Chondrosarcoma of the Posterior Cricoid Plate
title_sort low-grade chondrosarcoma of the posterior cricoid plate
topic Otolaryngology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8253495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34249549
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15400
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