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SUBMITTER: Venteicher AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3749258 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Venteicher Andrew S AS Walcott Brian P BP Sheth Sameer A SA Snuderl Matija M Patel Anoop P AP Curry William T WT Nahed Brian V BV
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 20130516 11
Salivary gland tumors comprise a group of 24 tumor subtypes with a wide range of clinical behaviors and propensities for metastasis. Several prognostic factors have been identified that help predict the development of systemic metastases, most commonly to the lung, liver, or bone. Metastases to the brain are rare. To better understand the behavior of salivary gland tumors that metastasise to the brain, we performed a retrospective cohort analysis on a series of patients to highlight features of ...[more]