Report of a unique case of myoepithelial carcinoma of left parotid gland with metachronous bilateral cavernous sinus metastasis | Zendy

Rambha Pandey | Zendy; Rituparna Biswas | Zendy; M. D. Ray | Zendy; Prashant Ramteke | Zendy; Ekta Dhamija | Zendy; Anirban Halder | Zendy

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Report of a unique case of myoepithelial carcinoma of left parotid gland with metachronous bilateral cavernous sinus metastasis

Author(s) -

Rambha Pandey,

Rituparna Biswas,

M. D. Ray,

Prashant Ramteke,

Ekta Dhamija,

Anirban Halder

Publication year - 2018

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.2018.02.002

Subject(s) - medicine , parotid gland , myoepithelial cell , cavernous sinus , distant metastasis , metastasis , sinus (botany) , neoplasm , salivary gland , radiation therapy , pathology , radiology , immunohistochemistry , cancer , botany , biology , genus

Myoepithelial carcinoma (MC) is a rare, locally aggressive malignant neoplasm of the salivary glands. Only few evidences on its metastatic behavior are available in the literature. We herein present a unique case of MC of left parotid gland which metastasized to bilateral cavernous sinuses. The patient was successfully treated with palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

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