Primary mucinous adenocarcinoma of the skin is a rare entity arising from eccrine sweat glands with a propensity for local recurrence and metastasis. This tumor has been widely reported in the ophthalmology literature, but not to our knowledge in the otolaryngology literature. A case of a 48-year-ol
Mucinous eccrine carcinoma of the eyelid
โ Scribed by Stephen N. Snow; George T. Reizner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 714 KB
- Volume
- 70
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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