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PRIMARY MUCO‐EPIDERMOID CARCINOMA ARISING IN A PAROTID LYMPH NODE
Author(s) -
Adkins G. F.,
Hinckley D. M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1989.tb01603.x
Subject(s) - medicine , parotid gland , pathology , lymph node , lymph , epidermoid carcinoma , salivary gland , carcinoma , lymph node metastasis , metastasis , cancer
A case of well‐differentiated muco‐epidermoid carcinoma in a parotid lymph node is described. This tumour appareitly arose within and was confined to the lymph node. Salivary ductal and acinar inclusions are often found n parotid lymph nodes and these may occasionally give rise to salivary gland tumours, both benign and malignant. The finding of a malignant salivary gland tumour within such a site does not necessarily imply a metastasis from a primary neoplasm elsewhere in the parotid gland.