Table 3 Patients with acinic cell carcinoma as primary head and neck cancer
Author, year | Patient no. | Patient age | Primary site, grade | Primary stage | Intervention for primary site | Location of spinal metastasis | Time frame of spinal metastasis | Signs + symptoms of spinal metastasis | Intervention for spinal metastasis | Outcome | Other metastasis | Mortality | Cause of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vidyadhara, 2007 [24] | 1 | 40 | Parotid acinic cell carcinoma | - | Excision | T4 | 4 mo | Back pain and girdle pain | Decompression, CT (cisplatin, 5FU, epirubicin), RT | Improved, developed lagophthalmos at 6 mo | Sphenoid bone | - | - |
Le Manarc’h, 2009 | 2 | 65 | Parotid acinic cell carcinoma | T1 N0 M0 | Complete resection, RT (50 Gy) | L1, L5 | 6 yr | Low back pain, with radiation to left leg | Arteriography + embolisation, excision, adjuvant RT | No recurrence at 6 mo | None | - | - |