title: Pulmonary metastasis of polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma of the minor salivary gland.
abstract: A surgical case of pulmonary metastases of polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma (PLGA) originating from the minor salivary gland in the soft palate in a 62-year-old woman is reported. PLGA has been to be a locally invasive carcinoma without distant metastases; thus our case is the first reported case with histologically-proven distant metastases to the lung. We emphasise that attention should be paid to distant metastases especially to the lung even in case of PLGA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inui
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ike
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yokomise
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukuse
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hitomi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shoji
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakashima
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012470:Salivary Glands, Minor