LARYNGEAL CARCINOMA EX-PAPILLOMA IN A NONIRRADIATED, NONSMOKING PATIENT - A CLINICAL RECORD AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Citation
S. Hasan et al., LARYNGEAL CARCINOMA EX-PAPILLOMA IN A NONIRRADIATED, NONSMOKING PATIENT - A CLINICAL RECORD AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 109(8), 1995, pp. 762-766
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Otorhinolaryngology
ISSN journal
00222151
Volume
109
Issue
8
Year of publication
1995
Pages
762 - 766
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-2151(1995)109:8<762:LCEIAN>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Malignant transformation of respiratory papillomata is not uncommon in the presence of precipitating factors such as tobacco smoking and the rapeutic irradiation. Respiratory papilloma changing to carcinoma in t he absence of smoking and irradiation is seldom seen, with only about 20 documented cases presented in the literature. Here we report one su ch case in a 30-year-old male patient.