Pleural effusion as the preenting feacture of palatal adenocystic carcinoma recurrence

• Autor(a) principal: Fevereiro, T.
• Data de Publicação: 1997
• Outros Autores: Matos, R. G., Ferreira, A., Morais, P., Ferreira de Almeida, A.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/2230
• topic: tumor pleural secundário; carcino­ma adenoquístico do palato duro; derrame pleural; secondary pleural tumour; adenocys­tic carcinoma of the hard palate; pleural effusion

The authors present the case of a 68-year old fema­le patient with a right sided pleural effusion, without cardiovascular or infectious disease complaints. The final diagnosis was of a secondary pleural tumour: adenocystic carcinoma, with the primary location on the hard palate, wich had been diagnosed and treated 8 years previously, with no subsequent local recurrence. The authors highlight the rarity of this diagnosis and the fact that, while pulmonary metastization with pleural involvement has been described, it is extreme­ly rare to find solitary pleural metastasis from this primary tumour.