Polymorphous Low-Grade Adenocarcinoma––Management and Reconstruction with Temporalis Myofacial Flap
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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 Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0972-8279,0974-942X
DOI: 10.1007/s12663-011-0227-8