Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, PO Box 4956, Nydalen, Oslo, NO-0424 Norway.
Department of Pathology, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway.
J Occup Med Toxicol. 2014 Dec 17;9(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s12995-014-0043-4. eCollection 2014.
We present a case report of an auxiliary nurse who developed an adenoid cystic carcinoma in her left maxillary sinus following occupational exposure to formaldehyde in the operating theatre. Currently, the epidemiological evidence that formaldehyde can cause cancer in humans is considered to be limited. Previous case-control-studies of formaldehyde and sinonasal cancer have mainly investigated subjects who were concomitantly exposed to wood dust, a known risk factor to the development of sinonasal adenocarcinoma of intestinal type. Our case report presents a patient who has developed an adenoid cystic carcinoma following exposure to formaldehyde. We suggest that the occupational physician remains alert to formaldehyde as an occupational hazard among health care workers.
我们报告了一例左上颌窦腺样囊性癌病例，该患者是一名手术室辅助护士，职业性接触甲醛。目前，认为甲醛可致癌的流行病学证据有限。既往关于甲醛和鼻腔鼻窦癌的病例对照研究主要调查了同时接触已知的鼻腔肠型腺癌发病危险因素-木屑的人群。我们的病例报告介绍了一名在接触甲醛后发生腺样囊性癌的患者。我们建议职业医生对医护人员职业性接触甲醛的危害保持警惕。
