Open AccessPrimary Branchiogenic Carcinoma
Author(s) -
Zuzana Hořáková,
Lukáš Velecký,
Marta Pažourková,
Pavla Urbánková,
Pavel Smilek
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
klinická onkologie
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1802-5307
pISSN - 0862-495X
DOI - 10.14735/amko2018296
Subject(s) - medicine , occult , pathological , metastasis , pathology , carcinoma , primary tumor , malignant transformation , cyst , lesion , radiology , cancer , alternative medicine
Primary branchiogenic carcinoma (BC) is an exceptional diagnostic entity. In most cases, suspicion of BC is confirmed to be a cystic lymph node metastasis of an occult primary tumor. Martin and Khafif therefore established diagnostic criteria, emphasizing above all the importance of a histologically assessed transformation of cystic lining epithelium into an invasive squamous cell carcinoma in one pathological lesion after the exclusion of a primary tumor.