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Published on: August 22, 2022
Chondrosarcoma of Temporomandibular Joint: Report of Two Cases
Alexander V Mordovskiy1, Sergey A Epifanov1,2, Andrey P Polyakov1
1Department of Microsurgery, P. Hertsen Moscow Oncology Research Institute is a branch of the National Medical Research Center for Radiology of the Russian Ministry of Health, 2-nd Botkinsky 3, Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
Chondrosarcoma of the head and neck region is a rare malignant tumor which occurs from 1 to 12% of all of chondrosarcomas. There are only a few case reports of chondrosarcoma in the temporomandibular joint region. This report describes two cases of chondrosarcoma of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in a 27-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman. In both cases signs of temporal bone resorption were noticed, and in the first case tumor had intracranial spread. In both cases the tumor was resected in a single block with peritumoral tissues. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulty in this pathology.
