Open AccessObstructing Trachea Tumor: Myoepithelial Carcinoma about a Case
Author(s) -
Amine Kessab,
A. Zegmout,
Mohammed Reda El Ochi,
Wafaa El Omari,
Abderrahmane Rhorfi,
Mohamed Oukabli
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advances in bioscience and clinical medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2203-1413
DOI - 10.7575/aiac.abcmed.v.9n.3p.45
Subject(s) - medicine , myoepithelial cell , myoepithelioma , carcinoma , radiation therapy , biopsy , pathology , immunohistochemistry , mixed tumor , dysphagia , radiology
Myoepithelial carcinoma, also called malignant myoepithelioma, is an extremely rare tumor of the salivary gland type. It is defined as a malignant neoplasm in which the tumor cells exhibit exclusively myoepithelial differentiation. Our case is a 48-year-old patient with no specific history who was presented to the hospital emergency room for respiratory difficulty and dysphagia progressively evolving for 08 weeks. A cervical CT was done which revealed a hypodense tumor process in T1 of 4 cm long axis obstructing the trachea well limited and richly vascularized. The diagnosis of tracheal myoepithelial carcinoma was made after histological and immunohistochemical analysis on a biopsy pending analysis of the operative specimen. Treatment remains initially surgical with appropriate postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy.