Introduction Parotid gland squamous cell carcinoma is an uncommon aggressive neoplasm with poor prognosis. Aural polyps are usually the presenting features of chronic suppurative otitis media, tuberculous otitis media, and adenoma or carcinoma. The malignant aural polyp is very rare. Parotid gland carcinoma masquerading as an aural polyp has rarely been described in the literature. ...

      Abstract: development of squamous cell carcinoma from sebaceous cyst is uncommon.in this report , we report a77- old female patient who has had a sebaceous cyst for 20 years. The cyst started to grow during the last year. The patient underwent an operation for excision biopsy and The diagnosis was squamous cell carcinoma.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA has been identified in esophageal carcinomas. However, the incidence of HPV varies significantly in different geographical locations. In this study, neoplasms from Turkmen Sahra, a region in Golestan province in northeast part of Iran, with a high incidence of squamous cell carcinoma were analyzed for the presence of HPV DNA. Turkmen Sahra is located in the cancer...

background: the aim of this study was to present epidemiological aspects of malignant tumor of head and neck in southeast of iran, with a view toward analyzing the age, gender, site distribution and histological types.  methods: all cases with malignant tumor of the head and neck region from 1999 to 2009 were retrieved from the records of cancer registry center of kerman university of medical s...

introduction: sentinel node mapping has been used for laryngeal carcinoma in several studies, with excellent results thus far.in the current study, we report our preliminary results on sentinel node mapping in laryngeal carcinoma using intra-operative peri-tumoral injection of a radiotracer.   materials and methods: patients with biopsy-proven squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx were included...

to evaluate the effect of adding neoadjuvant chemotherapy to surgery and radiation therapy for locally advanced resectable oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma, 24 patients with t3 or t4a oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma were randomly assigned to surgery alone or docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fu (tpf) induction chemotherapy followed by surgery. all patients were planned to receive chemoradiothe...

background and objective: the frequency and pattern of eye neoplasms differ in various geographic areas. our aim was to determine the distribution of patient age, gender, ocular tumor origin, location and histological type in our region. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, all of the 384 eye globe enucleation cases carried out during a 10-year period in farabi medical center i...

introduction: diagnosis, prediction and control of oral lesions is usually done classically based on clinical signs and histopathologic features. due to lack of timely diagnosis in all conventional methods or differential diagnosis, biopsy of patient is needed. therefore, the patient might be irritated. so, an intelligent method for quick and accurate diagnosis would be crucial. intelligent sys...