Document Type : Case Report
Authors
1 Dept. of Oral and Maxllofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2 Dept. of Oral pathology, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Abstract
Primary leiomyosarcoma is a rare tumor in the head and neck. This report is to describe a case of maxillary leiomyosarcoma in a 36-year-old man, who was referred to Chamran Hospital (Shiraz, Iran) in September 2009. The patient was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, originated in the left premaxilla. Histogenetica-lly, maxillary leiomyosarcoma arise from the medial muscle of blood vessels or from primitive mesenchyme in the maxilla (1). The lesion was treated with surgical resection; Midface Degloving procedure. The primary site received postoperative radiotherapy with external irradiation of 45 GY (25 treatments, 1/8 GY). The patient was monitored at follow-up visits in the next one year.
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