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Metastasis of spine from adenoid cystic carcinoma of the parotid gland: two case reports

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 2023
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Title
Metastasis of spine from adenoid cystic carcinoma of the parotid gland: two case reports
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 2023
DOI 10.1186/s13256-023-03926-w
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Saeid Safaei, Parisa Azimi, Taravat Yazdanian

Abstract

Spinal metastasis from adenoid cystic carcinoma of the salivary gland is extremely rare. We present two interesting cases of spinal metastasis from adenoid cystic carcinoma of the parotid gland. A 29-year-old Persian male and a 48-year-old Persian female presented with parotid gland mass. The two patients received parotidectomy and radiotherapy. The pathological examination result was adenoid cystic carcinoma. Because of intractable back pain, patients were referred to the hospital after 7 years and 9 months, respectively. Both cases underwent spinal surgery. Histopathology confirmed spinal metastasis from adenoid cystic carcinoma of the parotid gland (case 1: T6, T12, and L1; case 2: T12). Anterior corpectomy of T12 and lateral screw fixation at T11 and L1 were done in case 2. Posterior spinal fusions from T2 to L3 and from T10 to L2 were performed in case 1 and case 2, respectively. Both patients showed good clinical improvement. The last follow-up (case 1: 24 months; case 2: 6 months after surgery), plain radiographs and computed tomography scan showed good fusion without instrumental failure and magnetic resonance imaging revealed good decompression of the spinal cord of both cases. Although spinal metastasis from adenoid cystic carcinoma of the parotid gland is extremely rare, it is necessary to be careful in the differential diagnosis.

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Student > Ph. D. Student 1 50%
Researcher 1 50%
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Nursing and Health Professions 1 50%
Neuroscience 1 50%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 May 2023.
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#19,471,353
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#2,080
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#262,434
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#53
of 148 outputs
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