adenoid cystic carcinoma (nasal septum)
Primary
malignancy of the nasopharynx • Adenoid cystic carcinoma (nasal septum) - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Adenoid-zystisches Karzinom der Nasenhöhle
adenoid cystic carcinoma (nasal septum)
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Adenoid cystic carcinomas are a rare histological subtype of adenocarcinoma.
Pathology
Adenoid cystic carcinomas are generally considered low grade . The tumors have a notable tendency for perineural spread.
Location
They have a wide distribution and mainly occur in relation to the airways, lacrimal glands and breasts. Reported locations include:
- head and neck
- adenoid cystic carcinoma of the salivary glands
- adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal glands
- adenoid cystic carcinoma of the larynx
- hard palate
- nasopharynx
- rarely reported: eyelid
- sinonasal adenoid cystic carcinoma
- adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast
- tracheobronchial tree/respiratory tract
- adenoid cystic carcinoma of the tracheobronchial tree
- second most common primary malignant tracheal neoplasm (after squamous cell carcinoma)
- previously also called a cylindroma in this location
- adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lung
- adenoid cystic carcinoma of the tracheobronchial tree
- pelvis
- uterine/cervical
- adenoid cystic carcinoma of the Bartholin glands
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