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Leiomyosarcoma in the maxilla: a case report
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sugitani, Japan. swada-tym@umin.u-tokyo.ac.jp
International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
|July 10, 2002
Abstract:
We describe a rare case of leiomyosarcoma of the maxilla arising in a 71-year-old Japanese woman. The lesion was treated successfully by surgical resection with external irradiation of 70 Gy. No sign of recurrence or distant metastasis was present 3 years after operation. Histogenetically, this maxillary leiomyosarcoma apparently arose from the medial muscle of blood vessels or from primitive mesenchyme in the maxilla.