Molecular and Genetic Medicine

Operative Unit of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Otolaryngology and Dentistry, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy

Publications

• Case Report   
  Combined Small Cell Carcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Parotid Gland: Immunohistochemical and Molecular Characterization
  Author(s): Domenico Trombetta, Chiara Copelli, Paolo Graziano, Illuminato Carosi, Flavia Centra, Federico Pio Fabrizio, Maria Carmina Manzorra, Lucia Anna Muscarella* and Roberto Cocchi
  
  Combined SCC and SqCC of salivary gland are defined as a composite tumor and it represents an even more rare entity, often recognized just after evaluation of the surgical specimen. Here we report an extraordinary case of combined SCC and SqCC of the parotid gland in a 73-year-old man with a prior medical history of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. A computed tomography scan showed a 3 cm-sized heterogeneous mass in the parotid region while no other primary tumor or metastasis and lymphadenopathy were detected. The patient underwent to a partial parotidectomy and morphological and immunohistochemical features of the tumor were consisting in combined SCC and SqCC. SqCC component was immunoreactive for p40 whereas SCC neoplastic cells resulted strongly positive either for synaptophysin and chromogranin and negative either for p40 or high molecular weight .. Read More»
  

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