title: A rare diagnosis in the head and neck region: leiomyosarcoma.
abstract: A rare case of leiomyosarcoma in the neck was presented. Several common characteristics of head and neck leiomyosarcoma were summarized in this case: the low-grade behavior of this tumor, the difficulty of aspiration cytology to provide accurate morphologic classification of this like most other soft tissue tumors, the necessity for appropriate immunohistochemical investigation for accurate diagnosis, the nonspecificity of the radiologic findings, the necessity for en bloc three-dimensional resection of the tumor with adequate soft tissue margins that is actually the mainstay of treatment in this type of cancer, and the propensity to metastasize to distant organs.
authors.affiliation: ENT Department, Ankara Training and Education Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. haberalcan@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ilknur
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Haberal
authors.forename: Sedat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alagöz
authors.forename: Berna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oksüzoğlu
authors.forename: Ozgür
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tosun
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ustün
authors.forename: Ethem Erdal
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Samim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010166:Palliative Care; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed