Maxillary cancer in a child: a case report.
Cases with maxillary cancer are most frequently found in the 5th to the 7th decades of life, and then rarely occur in adolescence, even less so in a children. One does not expect to encounter this tumor in children, considering that most have a non-epithelial origin. However, we had a case of maxillary squamous cell carcinoma which appeared in a 12-year-old boy. He was initially considered to have sinusitis, and received conservative treatment for a while. After diagnosis, a combination therapy consisting of preoperative irradiation along intra-arterial administration of 5-FU and CBDCA was followed by total maxillectomy and primary reconstruction. Unfortunately about 2 months later, distant metastasis developed along with local recurrence, and the boy died about 1 year 6 months after the initial presentation. The clinical details of this rare case will be discussed in conjunction with some important considerations in dealing with this type of malignancy in a child.
Cao
ZhiWei
Z
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, China Medical University, Shenyang, People's Republic of China.
Wang
Yan
Y
Ishikawa
Kazuo
K
Honda
Kohei
K
Sakamoto
Masao
M
Miyazaki
Soichiro
S
Suzuki
Shinsuke
S
D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008441:Maxillary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000175:diagnosis*