Primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma?: a case report
The brachial cleft carcinoma is an extremely rare head and neck facial malignancy, and there is some disagreement about its differential diagnosis. In this paper, we report a 63-year-old male patient who had a mass on the left side of the neck and diagnosed as the brachial cleft carcinoma by intraop...
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| description | The brachial cleft carcinoma is an extremely rare head and neck facial malignancy, and there is some disagreement about its differential diagnosis. In this paper, we report a 63-year-old male patient who had a mass on the left side of the neck and diagnosed as the brachial cleft carcinoma by intraoperative biopsy pathology. However, this patient was diagnosed with the carcinoma of the left soft palate more than 20 days after surgery and esophageal cancer 2 years later, and was treated accordingly. Therefore, it is hard to confirm whether the branchial cleft carcinoma is primary or metastatic. In fact, the diagnostic criteria for primary squamous cell carcinoma of branchial cleft cysts are very rigorous. Confirmation of the diagnosis is based on pathological examination of the branchial cleft cyst epithelium lined with squamous cells, meanwhile, a thorough examination should also be performed to exclude the presence of other primary cancers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9972c4eef019400a9cb0f7dc3310ad3f2023-09-21T07:23:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Surgery2296-875X2023-09-011010.3389/fsurg.2023.12052871205287Primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma?: a case reportYang Ma0Yang Ma1Hangyu Liu2Lijing Yang3Shijie Tang4Lungang Shi5Lungang Shi6Department of Plastic Surgery, Meizhou Clinical Institute of Shantou University Medical College,Meizhou, ChinaDepartment of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, ChinaDepartment of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, ChinaDepartment of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, ChinaDepartment of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, ChinaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Meizhou Clinical Institute of Shantou University Medical College,Meizhou, ChinaDepartment of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, ChinaThe brachial cleft carcinoma is an extremely rare head and neck facial malignancy, and there is some disagreement about its differential diagnosis. In this paper, we report a 63-year-old male patient who had a mass on the left side of the neck and diagnosed as the brachial cleft carcinoma by intraoperative biopsy pathology. However, this patient was diagnosed with the carcinoma of the left soft palate more than 20 days after surgery and esophageal cancer 2 years later, and was treated accordingly. Therefore, it is hard to confirm whether the branchial cleft carcinoma is primary or metastatic. In fact, the diagnostic criteria for primary squamous cell carcinoma of branchial cleft cysts are very rigorous. Confirmation of the diagnosis is based on pathological examination of the branchial cleft cyst epithelium lined with squamous cells, meanwhile, a thorough examination should also be performed to exclude the presence of other primary cancers.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2023.1205287/fullbranchial cleft carcinomaprimary branchial cleft carcinomametastatic branchial cleft carcinomahead and neck tumorhead and neck (H&N) cancer |
| spellingShingle | Yang Ma Yang Ma Hangyu Liu Lijing Yang Shijie Tang Lungang Shi Lungang Shi Primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma?: a case report Frontiers in Surgery branchial cleft carcinoma primary branchial cleft carcinoma metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma head and neck tumor head and neck (H&N) cancer |
| title | Primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma?: a case report |
| title_full | Primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma?: a case report |
| title_fullStr | Primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma?: a case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma?: a case report |
| title_short | Primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma?: a case report |
| title_sort | primary or metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma a case report |
| topic | branchial cleft carcinoma primary branchial cleft carcinoma metastatic branchial cleft carcinoma head and neck tumor head and neck (H&N) cancer |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2023.1205287/full |
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