An unusual case of laryngeal carcinoma.
A 62-year-old male patient presented with carcinoma of the larynx which behaved in an atypical fashion clinically. It increased in size rapidly within a period of 5 weeks and clinically presented as a dumbell-shaped neck swelling over the thyroid alae. It had features on plain x-ray, tomography and CT scan which led to the diagnosis of chondrosarcoma of the larynx. After total laryngectomy, it turned out to be a squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx with some unusual histopathological features including bone formation in the tumour.
D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed