Field Cancerization in Action; A Case of Synchronous Triple Primary Malignancies in the Head and Neck.
Jijitha LakshmananAkshat KushwahaKalaiarasi RajaSivaraman GPublished in: Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India (2024)
Field cancerization is the phenomenon that classically describes the occurrence of multiple primary malignancies in the head and neck subsites, either synchronous or metachronous. It's unusual to come across synchronous primaries, that too three at a time. Here is a patient who presented to us with triple primary squamous cell carcinomas involving the floor of the mouth, base of the tongue, and glottis at the same time…….
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