Diagnostic Dilemma of Polymorphous Low Grade Adenocarcinoma of Hard Palate
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Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma.
Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinomas are minor salivary gland neoplasms with a predilection for intraoral sites. Women are affected twice as frequently as men, and generally present in the fifth to sixth decade of life with a painless ihaoral mass. The palatal mass is, on average, about 2 cm in greatest dimension. The tumors are submucosal, identified below an intact mucosa as a well-circumsc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Case Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2231-6809
DOI: 10.17659/01.2014.0023