|
KMID : 0311120090500060848
|
|
Yonsei Medical Journal
2009 Volume.50 No. 6 p.848 ~ p.851
|
|
|
Malignant Myoepithelioma of the Palate: A Case Report with Review of the Clinicopathological Characteristics
|
|
Mustafa Fuat Acikalin
Ozgul Pasaoglu
Hamdi Caklı
Kezban Gurbuz
Funda Canaz
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
A malignant myoepithelioma is one of the rarest salivary gland neoplasms which may either arise de novo or develop within a preexisting pleomorphic adenoma or benign myoepithelioma. The parotid gland is the most common primary site and the palate the most common intra-oral site of occurrence. Herein is present a case of a malignant myoepithelioma arising in the hard palate of a 79-year-old woman. The lesion had been examined by biopsy at another hospital, and diagnosed as a poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. The patient underwent a wide local tumor resection. Examination of the resection specimen showed the characteristic histopathological and immunohistochemical features of a malignant myoepithelioma. Five months after the operation, the patient was well without evidence of recurrence or metastasis.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Malignant myoepithelioma, palate
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
 
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
   
|