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Submental artery island flap (SMIF) is gaining popularity as a viable alternative to free flaps in carefully selected oral cavity defects after surgical extirpation of cancers.The current paper looks into the overall efficacy and oncological safety of the flap based on a prospective audit of 229 cases done at a high volume cancer center from october 2004 to september 2012 and concludes that SMIF is a oncologically safe,reliable reconstructive option in carefully selected oral cancers undergoing surgical resections.
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Secretory carcinoma of the breast is a rare entity accounting for less than 1 % of all infiltrating breast carcinomas. Though initially considered as "juvenile breast carcinoma", due to its occurrence predominantly in pediatric population, it was later found to present in other age groups as well. We report a case of secretory carcinoma breast in a middle aged woman who had undergone treatment for papillary carcinoma of thyroid previously. The uniqueness of this malignancy and the diagnostic dilemma due to patient's past medical history, are discussed in detail.
