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A Rare Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lacrimal Sac Originating from Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Case Report.

Vasileios Papanikos, Spyridon Lygeros, Athanasios Vlachodimitropoulos, Michail Athanasopoulos, Stylianos Mastronikolis, Nicholas S Mastronikolis

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Article in Reports (MDPI), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Vasileios PapanikosDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.
Spyridon LygerosDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0642-6697
Athanasios VlachodimitropoulosDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0009-0001-1992-2561
Michail AthanasopoulosDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0592-6921
Stylianos MastronikolisDepartment of Ophthalmology, General University Hospital of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.
Nicholas S MastronikolisDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2287-1275

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

dacryocystitislacrimal sac metastasisnasopharyngeal carcinomasquamous cell carcinoma

Identifiers

PMID41718292
PMCPMC12922017

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