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01-11-2004 | Letter to the Editor
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the palate composed exclusively of clear cells (clear cell variant)
Authors:
Tadashi Terada, Shinobu Ikeuchi, Chie Inomoto, Kazuo Shimamura
Published in:
Virchows Archiv
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Issue 5/2004
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Excerpt
To the Editor, Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MC) of the salivary glands is a malignant epithelial tumor that is composed of varying proportions of mucus, epidermoid, intermediate, columnar, and clear cells [
2]. It is classified into low-, intermediate-, and high-grade types on the basis of morphologic and cytologic features [
2,
6]. Although mucous, intermediate, and epidermoid cells are predominant in most MCs, it is well known that clear cells very infrequently predominate over other cell types [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5]. Such cases are called clear cell variant of MC [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5]. The authors here report a rare case of MC of the palate composed exclusively of clear cells. …
