Cystic papillary adenocarcinoma of the submandibular gland in a child.

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich., USA.

Published: December 1996

A 12-year-old boy reported that a mass in his left jaw had been growing slowly for 8 months. Axial and coronal contrast-enhanced spiral CT showed a 5-cm cystic mass within an enhancing, mildly enlarged submandibular gland. Excisional biopsy revealed a cystic papillary adenocarcinoma of the left submandibular gland, very rare in children.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8338602PMC

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