1. Minor salivary gland squamous cell carcinoma of the lower lip demonstrating striking perineural invasion
- Author
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Ceri Hughes, John W. Eveson, Matthew James Brennand-Roper, Steve Thomas, and Miranda Pring
- Subjects
Adult ,Reoperation ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Mandibular Nerve ,Oral Surgical Procedures ,Cell ,Perineural invasion ,Salivary Glands, Minor ,stomatognathic system ,medicine ,Carcinoma ,Humans ,Neoplasm Invasiveness ,General Dentistry ,Pathological ,Salivary gland ,Minor Salivary Gland Squamous Cell Carcinoma ,business.industry ,Salivary Gland Neoplasms ,medicine.disease ,Primary tumor ,Mental nerve ,stomatognathic diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Otorhinolaryngology ,Lip Neoplasms ,Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ,Female ,Surgery ,Oral Surgery ,business - Abstract
Squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) of minor salivary gland origin are extremely rare. We present an unusual case of a 29-year-old female patient who presented with a well-differentiated SCC of minor salivary gland origin arising in the lower lip. Wedge resections of the lip, including bilateral mental nerve excision, were required to clear the tumor because of striking pathological evidence of perineural invasion distant from the primary tumor site.
- Published
- 2010