Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the labium oris with rare metastasis to the pleural cavity
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Anas Alsara; Borys Hrinczenko; Osama Mosalem; Fawzi Abu Rous
- Source
- BMJ Case Rep
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Adenoid cystic carcinoma
Pleural Neoplasms
Case Report
Pembrolizumab
Southeast asian
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
Epigastric pain
Metastasis
Diagnosis, Differential
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
Medicine
Humans
030223 otorhinolaryngology
Pleural Cavity
business.industry
Head and neck cancer
General Medicine
Pleural cavity
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic
Lip
stomatognathic diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Lip Neoplasms
Histopathology
Female
Radiology
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1757-790X
A 57-year-old Southeast Asian woman with a remote history of adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the right labium superius oris (upper lip) presented to the hospital with vague epigastric pain. On workup, she was found to have multiple pleural nodules. Histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of metastatic ACC. After 8 months of active surveillance, evidence of disease progression was found and the patient was started on pembrolizumab. Follow-up after starting pembrolizumab showed stable disease with no significant side effects.