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ArticleBMJ case reports2013

Primary parapharyngeal and skull base synovial sarcoma in a 13-year-old boy with neurofibromatosis radiologically misdiagnosed as a benign lesion.

Shokouh Taghipour Zahir, Naser Sefidrokh Sharahjin, Mohammad Hossein Dadgarnia

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shokouh Taghipour ZahirDepartment of Pathology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran. shokouh_zahir@yahoo.com
Naser Sefidrokh Sharahjin
Mohammad Hossein Dadgarnia
Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synovial sarcoma is a rare form of malignant tumour and accounting approximately for 8% of all soft tissue sarcomas. Head and neck synovial sarcomas are uncommon and parapharyngeal space involvement is extremely rare. We report a case of synovial sarcoma in the parapharyngeal space of a 13-year-old boy with a history of neurofibromatosis presented with odynophagia, ptosis and left submandibular mass. The lesion extended from retrostyloid parapharyngeal space to the skull base and foramen jugular superiorly. The first clinical and radiological impressions were carotid jugular related tumours such as schwannoma and paraganglioma.

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AdolescentAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansMaleNeurofibromatosesPharyngeal NeoplasmsSarcoma, SynovialSkullTomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID23737583
PMCPMC3702872
OpenAlexW2325226343

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