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| Year : 2006 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 283-5 |
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Undifferentiated carcinoma of the submandibular salivary gland with fulminant clinical course : a case report.
R Rajendran, Vidyarani, P Bindu Nair, Suresh C Dutt
Department of Oral Pathology, Govt. Dental College, Trivandrum, Kerala
Correspondence Address:
R Rajendran
Department of Oral Pathology, Govt. Dental College, Trivandrum, Kerala
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PMID: 16933743 
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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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