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Malignant mesenchymoma of the larynx

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Osamu Kawashima ,
Tamio Kamei ,
Yuji Shimizu ,
Takao Shizuka  and
Morito Nakayama
Osamu Kawashima*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Gumma University School of Medicine, 3-39-15 Showa-machi, Maebashi-shi, Gumma 371
Tamio Kamei
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Gumma University School of Medicine, 3-39-15 Showa-machi, Maebashi-shi, Gumma 371
Yuji Shimizu
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Gumma University School of Medicine, 3-39-15 Showa-machi, Maebashi-shi, Gumma 371
Takao Shizuka
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Gumma University School of Medicine, 3-39-15 Showa-machi, Maebashi-shi, Gumma 371
Morito Nakayama
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Yokosula Kyosai Hospital, 1-16 Yone gahamadori, Yokosuka-shi, Kangawa 238, Japan.
*
Dr Osamu Kawashima, Department of Otolaryngology, Gurma University School of Medicine, 3-39-15 Shawa-machi, Macbashi-shi, Gurma, Japan.
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Abstract

A Case report of a laryngeal malignant mesenchymoma, a very rare head and neck and even rarer laryngeal leison, is reported.

In this case, an 85-years-old man, who had undergone several panendoscopies and biopsies that were non-diagnostic, subsequently succumbed to pulmonary metastases and died from respiratory failure. At autospy, tumour cells were demonstrated to constiute both bone and straited muscle cell types. As the tumour cells differentiated into two types of specialized cells from one type of embryonal tissue, the diagnosis of maligant mesenchymoma was established.

Type
View from Beneath: Pathology in Focus
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 104 , Issue 5 , May 1990 , pp. 440 - 444
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1990

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