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Fabrication of Tongue Extracellular Matrix and Reconstitution of Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma In Vitro
Published on: June 20, 2018
Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue in a 13-year-old boy
Maryam Seyedmajidi1, Maryam Faizabadi
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Dental Faculty, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran. ms_majidi79@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue is uncommon among children and teenagers. Most commonly, squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck presents during the fifth and sixth decades of life in patients with a long history of tobacco and alcohol use. The rarity of this lesion in young patients implies that clinicians might not include it in the differential diagnoses. In general, carcinoma of the oral cavity in young people is reported to be particularly aggressive and carry a poor prognosis. A case of carcinoma of the tongue in a 13-year-old boy is presented in this report.
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