Lower-extremity liposarcoma metastatic to the larynx: case report.

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  • Scott F Daly
  • James Sciubba
  • Ralph P Tufano
چکیده

Distant metastases to the larynx are rare. We describe the case of a 46-year-old man who was referred to our head and neck surgery clinic with a 6-week history of sore throat and otalgia. He was found to have a laryngeal lesion that was consistent with a primary myxoid liposarcoma that had been extirpated from a lower extremity earlier To the best of our knowledge, no case of myxoid liposarcoma metastatic to the larynx has been previously reported in the English-language literature.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Ear, nose, & throat journal

دوره 85 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006