Produção Nacional
Carcinoma Mucoepidermóide de Glândula Sublingual: Relato de Caso Clínico
2008; Volume: 16; Issue: 31 Linguagem: Inglês
10.15603/2176-1000/odonto.v16n31p100-104
ISSN2176-1000
AutoresFernanda Florian, Nicolau Conte Neto, Valfrido Antônio Pereira Filho, Marisa Aparecida Cabrini Gabrielli, Eduardo Hochuli‐Vieira,
Tópico(s)Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
ResumoThe major salivary glands tumors are 3 to 5 % of all the head and neck neoplasms. The mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a malignant tumor of salivar gland most frequent in the oral cavity, preferential in females, between 3 th and 4 th decades of life. One is about an aggressive injury, where the main clinical aspects include a nodular form, solid and fixed consistence increase the touch, varying among the blue shades to the red or purple. The process diagnosis is made through an association among the clinical and complemental exams, being the biopsy essential for the dignosis conclusion. The mucoepidermoid carcinoma can be classified as his differentiation degree in low, intermediate and high-grade. A recent system using five histopathological founds seems to be the ideal to accomplish that classification. Treatment usually surgical, include complete resection of the lesion, being the favorable prognostic.
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