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| Year : 2012 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 6-10 |
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Epithelial-Myoepithelial carcinoma of the parotid: A rare and difficult malignant tumor to diagnose clinically and radiologicaly
Bandar Al-Qahtani1, Manal Bin-Manie2, Ali Al-Muntashiri3, Osman Ahmed4
1 Consultant, Department of Otolaryngology, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2 Resident, Department of Otolaryngology, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
3 Senior registrar Department of Radiology, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
4 Consultant Department of King Saud Madical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Bandar Al-Qahtani
Department of Otolaryngology, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/1319-8491.274774
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Epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma (EMC) of the parotid gland is difficult to differentiate from pleomorphic adenoma. EMC is a rare entity and there is not much information about this in literature. We review here the diagnosis, clinical behavior, and treatment of EMC .and in the same time , we recmmend to have early surgical excision if there is nodal metastasis on CAT scan and not to depend on FNAC only if it shows pleomorphic adenoma.
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