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Epithelial–myoepithelial carcinoma of the submandibular gland with symptomatic lung metastases treated with chemotherapy

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This report concerns a patient with symptomatic lung metastases from an epithelial–myoepithelial carcinoma of the submandibular gland. Although the efficacy of chemotherapy is unknown in this disease, our patient was treated with cisplatin combined with 5-fluorouracil and later with paclitaxel and cyclophosphamide. Chemotherapy allowed disease stabilization and relief of the pulmonary symptoms. This is the first report on the use of chemotherapy in this very rare salivary gland carcinoma.

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  1. Department of Medical Oncology, Clinique de Cancérologie Cervico-Maxillo-Faciale, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, 10, Av. Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    Sophie Pierard & Jean-Pascal Machiels

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Clinique de Cancérologie Cervico-Maxillo-Faciale, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

    Vincent Gregoire

  3. Department of Pathology, Clinique de Cancérologie Cervico-Maxillo-Faciale, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

    Birgit Weynand

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Pierard, S., Gregoire, V., Weynand, B. et al. Epithelial–myoepithelial carcinoma of the submandibular gland with symptomatic lung metastases treated with chemotherapy. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 263, 1158–1160 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-006-0125-8

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