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Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the larynx presenting as a primary unknown carcinoma
Kentaro Miki1, Yorihisa Orita, Soichiro Nose
1Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital, Japan.
Auris, Nasus, Larynx
|May 17, 2011
Abstract
Objective:
The case of an 80-year-old man showing a metastatic cervical small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma is presented.
Results:
The primary site could not be found at first; it took 8-10 months to detect the primary lesion in the larynx.
Conclusion:
(18)F-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) was useful to find the submucosal lesion. Despite surgical treatments and chemotherapy, the patient survived for only 21 months.
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