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  • Cranium eroding sweat carcinoma : a case report = Prikaz primera karcinoma znojnih žlez, ki je razjedal lobanjske kosti
    Arslan, Mehmet, dr. med. ...
    Background. Sweat gland carcinomas are rare turnors. Eccrine sweat gland carcinomas are also very rare, with only about 200 cases reported in the worldliterature and only one of them was eroding the ... cranium. Treatment modalities of these carcinomas are not well known. Case report. Our patient was 47 years old female. Since 1989, she was operated on six times because o fthe tumour relapses. After each operation, the pathological results were: sweat gland adenoma, sweat gland tumour, cylindroma, turban tumour, malign cylindiroma. That was her seventh relapse. On examination, a lesion of the size 10 x 6 cm was observed in the left parietal region. Computed tomography showed the lesion had the size of 11 x 5 cm, and was destroying the tabula externa, diploic region and tabula. The tumour was invading the dura and causing periost reaction. Surgery and postoperative radiotherapy treatment wasplanned because of malign transformation and risk of recurrence. Conclusians. Only one case with cranium erosion was reported in literature. Inour case, also intracranial extension of the tumor was observed.
    Source: Radiology and oncology. - ISSN 1318-2099 (Letn. 39, št. 1, March 2005, str. 55-59)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2005
    Language - slovenian
    COBISS.SI-ID - 19322073

source: Radiology and oncology. - ISSN 1318-2099 (Letn. 39, št. 1, March 2005, str. 55-59)
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