Anaplastic carcinoma of the parotid gland: a case report of a patient disease free after nine years. Follow-up
Ladeinde, A.L.; Akinwande, J.A.; Ogunlewe, M.O.; Odukoya, O.O.; Taiwo, E.O.
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal 9(4): 243-247
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 1117-1936 PMID: 12690688 Document Number: 544661
A case of massive anaplastic carcinoma of the left parotid gland in a 29-year old female Nigerian, of Yoruba tribe, for which radical left parotidectomy with external carotid artery ligation and post-operative radiotherapy was performed is presented Nine years post-operatively, no evidence of recurrence or metastasis was found. The patient is in apparent good health, despite the amount of tumour spillage that was experienced intra-operatively. As far as we have been able to check, it is to our knowledge the first of such from Nigeria.