Small cell carcinoma of the lung in a treated case of Myoepithelial carcinoma of the tongue – Report of a rare case with illustrated review of the literature | Zendy

BhanuPrasad Venkatesulu | Zendy; Supriya Mallick | Zendy; Archana George | Zendy; Suman Bhasker | Zendy

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Small cell carcinoma of the lung in a treated case of Myoepithelial carcinoma of the tongue – Report of a rare case with illustrated review of the literature

Author(s) -

BhanuPrasad Venkatesulu,

Supriya Mallick,

Archana George,

Suman Bhasker

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of the egyptian national cancer institute

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2589-0409

pISSN - 1110-0362

DOI - 10.1016/j.jnci.2015.06.002

Subject(s) - myoepithelioma , medicine , myoepithelial cell , tongue , carcinoma , oral cavity , pathology , immunohistochemistry , dentistry

Myoepithelial carcinoma has rarely been reported in the oral cavity and oropharynx. We found only 6 cases of myoepithelioma of the tongue reported till date. Two cases had a benign myoepithelioma; four had epithelial-Myoepithelial carcinoma. The present case had malignant myoepithelioma, a distinct entity from other histologies.

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