An increased incidence of malignancies occurs in ataxia telangiectasia.These are most frequently hematopoietic in children and epithelial in adults. Both cellular immunodeficiency and chromosome damage have been implicated in their etiology. There has been only one report of a salivary malignancy, a
Ataxia telangiectasia and mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid gland: a case report
✍ Scribed by A.Şefik Hoşal; Taner Yilmaz; Oğuz Öğretmenoğlu; Figen Söylemezoğlu
- Book ID
- 116103469
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 568 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-5876
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