Ajiya Abdulrazak, Shuaibu Iliyasu Yunusa, Yahuza Mansur Adamu
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
Department of Surgery, Division of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
Afr J Paediatr Surg. 2022 Apr-Jun;19(2):105-108. doi: 10.4103/ajps.AJPS_133_20.
Primary malignant salivary gland tumours are uncommon among the paediatric population, accounting for <10% of all head-and-neck tumours in childhood. Less than 5% of all salivary gland cancers occur during childhood, most of them are diagnosed over the age of 10 years and are histologically low or intermediate grade. Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) occurring in the oropharynx of children and arising from the posterior pharyngeal wall is rare and probably never reported. We hereby report a case of advanced MEC arising from the posterior wall of the oropharynx in a 9-year-old boy, managed via a transcervical excision in a resource-poor setting.
原发性恶性唾液腺肿瘤在儿童群体中并不常见，占儿童所有头颈部肿瘤的比例不到10%。所有唾液腺癌中不到5%发生在儿童期，其中大多数在10岁以上被诊断出来，组织学上为低级别或中级别。发生在儿童口咽且起源于咽后壁的黏液表皮样癌（MEC）很罕见，可能从未有过报道。我们在此报告一例9岁男孩口咽后壁起源的晚期MEC病例，该病例在资源匮乏地区通过经颈切除术进行治疗。
