Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of the Oropharynx: A Case Report
| Autor: | Masahiko Muroi, Tomofumi Okamiya, Tomoko Chiyoda, Nobuhiko Furuya |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Systemic disease
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Chemotherapy medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.medical_treatment medicine.disease Small-cell carcinoma Metastasis Lesion Radiation therapy medicine.anatomical_structure Otorhinolaryngology Cervical lymph nodes Biopsy medicine medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Practica Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica. 97:971-976 |
| ISSN: | 1884-4545 0032-6313 |
| Popis: | We report an extremely rare case of primary small cell carcinoma of the oropharynx.A 74-year-old male patient complaining of massive cervical tumor had a small uvular lesion. A biopsy of the uvular tumor and immunohistochemical analysis led to a histological diagnosis of small cell carcinoma. We diagnosed primary small cell carcinoma of the oropharynx and metastasis to the cervical lymph nodes since he had no chest lesion. He was treated with radiation therapy, because chemotherapy could not be used due to his bad general condition and several severe complications. Eventually, the patient died due to sepsis from a decubitus ulcer, in spite of the satisfactory clinical effect of the radiation therapy on the oropharyngeal primary lesion and the cervical tumor.Small cell carcinoma is a special neoplasm both pathologically and clinically. We should create a protocol for the treatment of laryngopharyngeal small cell carcinoma as a systemic disease. |
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