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Epithelioid Sarcoma of the External Auditory Canal: An Uncommon Tumor at an Unusual Site and a Brief Overview of the Literature.

Bingcheng WuJoshua Kai Xun TayWoei Shyang LohFredrik Petersson
Published in: Head and neck pathology (2021)
We present a case (41 years old pregnant female) with epithelioid sarcoma arising in the left external auditory canal. On immunohistochemistry, the tumor cell diffusely expressed cytokeratins and showed patchy expression of ERG and CD34. The neoplastic cells demonstrated uniform loss of INI1-expression. Epithelioid sarcoma arising in the external auditory canal is rare. Awareness that ES may rarely arise at unusual sites is of critical importance in order to apply a broad enough panel in the immunohistochemical study, so a misdiagnosis of carcinoma can be avoided.
Keyphrases
  • poor prognosis
  • working memory
  • hearing loss
  • induced apoptosis
  • systematic review
  • single cell
  • pregnant women
  • binding protein
  • cell cycle arrest
  • cell therapy
  • rare case
  • cell death