Parotid Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a Three-year Old: A Case Report

Salivary glands consist of parotid, submandibular, sublingual and other minor salivary glands. Tumors affecting these glands present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for the pathologist and the surgeon respectively. They are not uncommon in adults but rare in children, with an annual incidence...

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Autores principales: Chiware, Rumbidzai, Masege, Dipuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36388730
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jwas.jwas_130_22
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description Salivary glands consist of parotid, submandibular, sublingual and other minor salivary glands. Tumors affecting these glands present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for the pathologist and the surgeon respectively. They are not uncommon in adults but rare in children, with an annual incidence of 0.08 per 100 000. When present, older children are affected. Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is the most common cancer presenting in children with a predilection for the parotid gland. This case report describes presentation of this rare tumor in a three-year old girl with a brief review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-96417442022-11-15 Parotid Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a Three-year Old: A Case Report Chiware, Rumbidzai Masege, Dipuo J West Afr Coll Surg Case Report Salivary glands consist of parotid, submandibular, sublingual and other minor salivary glands. Tumors affecting these glands present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for the pathologist and the surgeon respectively. They are not uncommon in adults but rare in children, with an annual incidence of 0.08 per 100 000. When present, older children are affected. Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is the most common cancer presenting in children with a predilection for the parotid gland. This case report describes presentation of this rare tumor in a three-year old girl with a brief review of the literature. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9641744/ /pubmed/36388730 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jwas.jwas_130_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of the West African College of Surgeons https://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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Parotid Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a Three-year Old: A Case Report
title Parotid Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a Three-year Old: A Case Report
title_full Parotid Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a Three-year Old: A Case Report
title_fullStr Parotid Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a Three-year Old: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Parotid Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a Three-year Old: A Case Report
title_short Parotid Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma in a Three-year Old: A Case Report
title_sort parotid gland mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a three-year old: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36388730
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jwas.jwas_130_22
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