ABSTRACT
Undifferentiated carcinoma of salivary glands is too poorly differentiated to be classified as any of the specific group of carcinomas. This is a rare disease, the incidence of which is rather low-to-very low in the Indian subcontinent. The tumor can assume an aggressive clinical behavior characterized by disseminated metastases. The prognosis is rated as dismal; as evidenced by this clinical report of a tumor in the submandibular salivary gland with synchronous metastases to the skull bones and in to the intracranial fossa. The putative relationship of the tumor to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is discussed.
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Adult , Brain Neoplasms/secondary , Carcinoma/etiology , Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/complications , Female , Humans , Skull Neoplasms/secondary , Submandibular Gland Neoplasms/etiologyABSTRACT
Se presenta la experiencia de los autores en el tratamiento quirúrgico de la glándula submandibular. Se resalta algunos aspectos a tener presente en la cirugía. Son 15 casos, reunidos entre los años 1988-1995. El 66,7 por ciento presentaba una patología inflamatoria y un 33,3 por ciento era de tipo neoplásica. A diferencia de lo que dicen algunas publicaciones, las neoplasias benignas fueron un 80 por ciento (4 casos); todos adenomas pleomorfos. Se comunica los análisis de esta casuística en relación a la edad, sexo, complicaciones y se plantean conductas a seguir en el tratamiento quirúrgico de la glándula submandibular