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 | - | - |
“RT”: Radiation therapy. “CT”: Chemotherapy. “CR”: Chemoradiation.” Grade”: Greenberg Grade. “Gy”: Gray. “yr”: year(s). “mo”: month(s). “wk”: week(s). “d”: day(s). “-“: Not given.