Mucoepidermoid carcinomas (MECs) arising within the jaws as primary central bony lesions are termed central MECs. Central MECs are extremely rare, comprising 2-3% of all mucoepidermoid carcinomas. We herein report a rare case of central MEC of the maxilla in a 52-year-old male whose plain radiographs showed a "ground glass" pattern and computed tomographic images, a hypodense mass with numerous...

An interesting case of a 09 years old girl is reported who presented with a painless, mobile, spherical, fluctuant and brilliantly translucent swelling in front of left ear. The fine needle aspiration revealed turbid dark yellow colour fluid. This cystic swelling was completely excised and the specimen on histopathology was reported as low grade Mucoepidermoid carcinoma. Recovery was uneventful...

Malignant salivary gland tumors are rare in children, mostly represented by low-grade mucoepidermoid carcinomas. For these patients, long-term survival rates above 95% are reported after surgical resection. Here we report a case of a 9-year-old girl with a high grade locally advanced mucoepidermoid carcinoma undergoing adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy after surgery. We emphasize the contr...

introduction: mucoepidermoid carcinoma represents one of the most common malignant salivary gland tumors.however, the sclerosing morphologic variant is extremely rare with only 23 reported cases in the english-language literature since it was discovered in 1987. case report: herein, we describe another case that was diagnosed in a 25-year-old woman presenting with a posterior auricular mass, as...

Conjunctival mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a very rare but highly aggressive conjunctival neoplasm with 42 previously reported cases. We report the case of a 56-year-old male with a left ocular surface squamous neoplasm, which was subsequently treated with excision and autoconjunctival graft. Histopathology of the operative specimen reported a low-grade conjunctival mucoepidermoid carcinoma, and ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology and comparative survival for minor salivary gland cancer of the oral cavity. STUDY DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING Academic medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Cases of minor salivary gland cancer of the oral cavity were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (1988-2005) and staged. Kaplan-Meier survivals wer...

Background: Salivary gland tumors are rare and with different malignant potential. Immunohistochemistry is useful, especially Ki67, a marker of cell proliferation, for its prognostic information. On the other side, mucin MUC-1 overexpressed loses exclusively apical membranous localization aberrantly glycosylated in mucoepidermoid carcinoma salivary glands. In present work, we investigated quant...

BACKGROUND Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is a rare tumor of the lung that accounts for 0.1-0.2% of all pulmonary tumors. To the best of our knowledge, brain metastasis from lung MEC is rare and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of this lesion have not been documented. CASE DESCRIPTION We herein report the case of a 72-year-old male. MRI revealed a left parietal tumor showing ring enh...

Abstract Background Primary hepatic mucoepidermoid carcinoma (HMEC) is extremely rare and the molecular etiology still unknown. The CRTC1-MAML2 fusion gene was previously detected in a primary HMEC, which often associated with MEC of salivary gland literature. Methods A 64-year-old male diagnosed HMEC based on malignant squamous cells mucus-secreting immunohistochemical examination. Fluorescenc...