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Head and neck cancers are emerging as major health problems in India. In 2010, head and neck cancer was ranked as the sixth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Approximately 481,100 new cases developed, and 320,000 persons died of this disease, resulting in an average mortality rate of 7.3 and 3.2 per 100,000 males and females, respectively. Oral squamous cell carcinoma is the most common head and neck malignancy having a propensity for the locoregional spread. Vascular invasion is very rare when compared to lymphatic spread. Most frequent sites of distant metastasis are lung, bone, liver, adrenals, heart, and kidney. We report a rare case of 39-year-old male with cervical vertebral metastasis from tongue carcinoma which is 9th case reported according to literature.
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Road traffic accidents are a major havoc in present day life. The injuries caused by them are extremely dangerous and is always a threat to a normal routine of the patient. Every patient desire to have an esthetic appearance of the head and neck region no matter how devastating is the injury. Surgical esthetic primary closure of soft tissues is always a challenge for oral and maxillofacial surgeon. We present a case report of a 15 year old girl with 12 cm scalp laceration who had an esthetic closure in a rural primary Health Care Centre in a Medical Teaching Hospital in Andhra Pradesh.
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Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a highly fulminant, mesenchymal malignant tumor and is considered to be one among life-threatening disease in the present decades. It is considered to be most common malignant neoplasm of the head and neck region with 10% of cases occurring in orbit. Th ough it is common in sixth and seventh decades, it can also occur in early childhood. In this article, we present a rare case of 9-yearold boy who was diagnosed with histopathologically proven RMS of orbit who had undergone a salvage left orbital exenteration following a chemotherapy. Th e main aim of this article is also to provide an overview of RMS of orbit, clinical features, investigations required, staging and various treatment modalities.
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Child , Humans , Male , /diagnosis , /surgery , Review Literature as Topic , Rhabdomyosarcoma/diagnosis , Rhabdomyosarcoma/pathologyABSTRACT
The present article reports the case of a calcifying odontogenic cyst Type I variant in the maxilla of a 65-year-old woman. The lesion is unusual in that it has features of a cyst but also has many characteristics of solid neoplasm. It is classified into 2 types Type I-cystic variant and Type II-solid tumor variant. The calcifying odontogenic cyst may present some problems of differential diagnosis, both clinically and histopathologically. The histopathologic examination showed that structures characteristic of calcifying odontogenic cyst. The lesion was benign. After surgical removal of the cyst, the wound healed uneventfully, and the region was free of symptoms.