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Iran J Otorhinolaryngol
July 2021
Department of Biomedicine , Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostic, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Introduction: Melanotic oncocytic metaplasia of the nasopharynx is an uncommon disease, usually asymptomatic, that could be misdiagnosed for melanoma, because of its macroscopic features. For this reason, is necessary to know it thoroughly and to take it into account in the differential diagnosis.
Case Report: A 69-year-old Italian woman presented to our Otorhinolaryngology Clinic with a 1-month history of sore throat.
Ear Nose Throat J
September 2021
Department of Pathology, 63474Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Pathology
October 2019
Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Oncocytic metaplastic lesions of the nasopharynx are rare benign entities which are divided into melanotic and non-melanotic forms. Less than 40 non-melanotic and 30 melanotic cases have been reported in the literature. We present the largest known case series to date of melanotic oncocytic metaplasia and more than 20 cases of non-melanotic oncocytic metaplasia.
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February 2016
Department of Otolaryngology, Fujieda Municipal General Hospital Shizuoka, Japan.
Melanotic oncocytic metaplasia (MOM) of the nasopharynx is an extremely rare lesion, with only 21 cases reported in English literature to date. MOM typically occurs near the Eustachian tube opening in Asian men in their 60 s to 70 s. Here, we present a case of MOM in a 57-year-old Japanese man who is a heavy smoker.
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March 2015
Department of Pathology, Saitama Medical University, Saitama International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan; Department of Clinical Pathology, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Hyogo, Japan.
We present three cases of melanotic oncocytic metaplasia of the nasopharynx. Case 1 and Case 2 were a 70- and a 61-year-old woman, and Case 3 was a 74-year-old man. Although Case 1 was asymptomatic, Cases 2 and 3 had hoarseness.
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