Ciment Lawrence M, Ciment Ari J
Mount Sinai Hospital, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA.
Chest. 2002 Apr;121(4):1359-61. doi: 10.1378/chest.121.4.1359.
We describe a case of a 55-year-old man presenting with a metastatic malignant ameloblastoma 29 years after the primary tumor was resected. This represents the longest period between initial diagnosis and first subsequent metastasis recorded as a case report. This case illustrates distinctions between the terms metastatic and malignant; it also highlights the difficulties derived from the accumulation of data by new diagnostic modalities (electron beam CT and positron emission tomography) and their integration into assessment algorithms.
我们描述了一例55岁男性患者，其在原发性肿瘤切除29年后出现转移性恶性成釉细胞瘤。这是有病例报告记录的从初始诊断到首次后续转移间隔时间最长的病例。该病例说明了“转移性”和“恶性”这两个术语之间的区别；它还凸显了新诊断方式（电子束CT和正电子发射断层扫描）积累数据并将其整合到评估算法中所带来的困难。
