Anaplastic carcinoma of the parotid gland: a case report of a patient disease free after nine years. Follow-up

Autor: AL Ladeinde, JA Akinwande, MO Ogunlewe, OO Odukoya, EO Taiwo
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal. 9(4)
ISSN: 1117-1936
Popis: A case of massive anaplastic carcinoma of the left parotid gland in a 29-year old female Nigerian, of Yoruba tribe, for which radical left parotidectomy with external carotid artery ligation and post-operative radiotherapy was performed is presented Nine years post-operatively, no evidence of recurrence or metastasis was found. The patient is in apparent good health, despite the amount of tumour spillage that was experienced intra-operatively. As far as we have been able to check, it is to our knowledge the first of such from Nigeria.
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