| Ascending colon adenocarcinoma with tonsillar metastasis： A case report and review of the literature |
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| 基金项目： | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors thank Xin-Chun Yu for his help with immunohistochemistry staining. |
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| 摘 要： | Metastatic palatine tonsil cancer is extremely rare, with nearly 100 such tumors reported in the English literature. The prognosis of metastatic palatine tonsil cancer is poor. A 53-year-old man presented with painless left palatine tonsillar swelling and a cervical mass following right hemicolectomy for an ascending colon adenocarcinoma. Physical examination showed an ulcerated mass located on the upper pole of the left palatine tonsil. A punch biopsy was taken for histological examination which showed a moderatelydifferentiated adenocarcinoma. The patient was treated with palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy. He was still alive when we wrote this paper. Our case shows that immunohistochemical diagnosis of metastatic palatine tonsil cancer is essential.
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| 关 键 词： | 扁桃体肿瘤 肿瘤转移 结肠癌 腺癌 |
| 收稿时间： | 2008-09-26 |
Ascending colon adenocarcinoma with tonsillar metastasis:A case report and review of the literature |
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| Li-Ming Sheng,Li-Zhen Zhang,Yuan Zhu. Ascending colon adenocarcinoma with tonsillar metastasis:A case report and review of the literature[J]. World journal of gastroenterology : WJG, 2008, 14(46): 7138-7140. DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.7138 |
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| Authors: | Li-Ming Sheng Li-Zhen Zhang Yuan Zhu |
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| Affiliation: | [1]Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou 310022, Zhejiang Province, China [2]Department of Pathology, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou 310022, Zhejiang Province, China |
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| Abstract: | Metastatic palatine tonsil cancer is extremely rare, with nearly 100 such tumors reported in the English literature. The prognosis of metastatic palatine tonsil cancer is poor. A 53-year-old man presented with painless left palatine tonsillar swelling and a cervical mass following right hemicolectomy for an ascending colon adenocarcinoma. Physical examination showed an ulcerated mass located on the upper pole of the left palatine tonsil. A punch biopsy was taken for histological examination which showed a moderately-differentiated adenocarcinoma. The patient was treated with palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy. He was still alive when we wrote this paper. Our case shows that immunohistochemical diagnosis of metastatic palatine tonsil cancer is essential. |
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| Keywords: | Tonsil neoplasm Metastasis Colon neoplasm Adenocarcinoma Immunohistochemistry |
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